25 or 28 on the rd1?

the zm 28 is actually not all that big...if you take the shade off.
i may try shooting shadeless for awhile.

if i keep the kit small, say one body plus 15/28/40, i can also stop worrying about size so much.
 
The CV 25/4p was my standard lens for quite a while and I used the whole of the VF for framing, but I changed to a 28 to be able to use the framelines. I have a 15/28/50 set now but that actually includes two 28's. I have the CV28/2 Ultron for the speed but I recently picked up CV28/3.5 and that is just so nice and small it's become my day to day standard lens. The smaller aperture doesn't bother and it's very, very sharp.
 
I bought the 28/1.9 first. When I had – or, more accurately imagined I had – some more cash to spare, I bought the little 25/4 in Leica M mount. Since then, the 25/4 is the instrument of choice: it weighs nothing, is less quicker and demanding to focus on the R-D1's so-so rangefinder and you can use the whole finder to approximate the image coverage. Actually, this is a good idea for specs-wearers, because you can dial up the 50mm framelines and use them for accurate centering and horiz/vertical alignment, something that's not always possible with the hard-to-see 28mm frames.

Vignetting is a problem when you want even illumination and has its own charm when you don't (which I find is surprisingly often). One advantage the 28/1.9 is justly famous for is its naturalistic tonal rendering, when used on the R-D1: the 24/4 is far more contrasty – but I like contrasty images, so it's not a big issue, at least for me.

I've got to the point that the 28/1.9 is seeing so little use that I might well sell it on.
 
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