35 or 50?

35 or 50?

  • 35mm

    Votes: 292 53.0%

  • 50mm

    Votes: 259 47.0%
  • Total voters
    551
50's just never work for me; always find I need to step back too far from the subject. 35's are my sweet spot but even a 21 is something I can easily go out with all day. I shoot people and I shoot close...
 
George Bonanno said:
Is that like a Buda thing ?

That will never happen.
However, prove me wrong.

Boris is right on target... look at his photostream.

50mm equivalent is visual perfection.
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Your probably right, but I did say should instead of would🙂 But you almost have me convinced to try it with the Bessa. Being Feburary 1 today would be a good day to start. Thanks for the push.😀
 
gb hill said:
Your probably right, but I did say should instead of would🙂 But you almost have me convinced to try it with the Bessa. Being Feburary 1 today would be a good day to start. Thanks for the push.😀
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Well Greg, I hope you snapped that 35 on the Bessa and hang in there for six months. Something I've never been able to achieve... even for half a roll.
 
It's a toughie...!! I currently have a Canon 35mm f2.8 and Leica 50mm Summicron f2. The Leica's on my camera right now but if I could only have one focal length I'd probably go withe the 35mm as it is just a bit wider with little / no distortion - but still capable of respectable portraits.
 
The 50, because I often want to take pictures of flowers when out with my IIIf and I can use a NOOKY-HESUM with my Summitar. There's no equivalent accessory to let my 35 focus closely.

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I think I could be very happy with just a 35mm lens, not so much a 50mm. It seems I gravitate to 35mm or its equivalent in other formats as a favorite one-lens choice... The 25mm on Olympus Pen, 24 on Pentax dSLR, 28 on M8, 35 on M2 and M9, 55-60 on 6x4.5, and 75 on 6x7. It just seems a comfortable place to settle, though I'm also happy to use other lenses in a two-lens kit. In Hawaii recently I used 35 and 75 about equally.
 
it's a 50 both from habit [ free lense with original SLR ! ] and the vague disturbance which the slight ' distortion ' creates with mild autism . Having said that the 55 f1.8 Rokkor is still treasured .
 
I prefer the 50mm lens because it's a time honored classic, a focal length that has created more great photographs than any other focal length. And I love it because it's the normal lens and I am weird enough myself. Furthermore I believe that the 50mm is the most balanced focal length it's not a tele and it's not a wide it's the middle. Maybe I would change my opinion if someone gave me his 35mm Summicron 😀

Dominik
 
Its got to be the 50 as have more of them than the 35s and seems normal and natural to take them for a spin. Have 2 35 Summicrons in Leica M and R and 5 in 50 mm, these being Nikkor 50 1.8 AIS, 50 mm 1,5 Zeiss Opton Sonnar and Zeiss C Sonnar Nikon S fit and 50 M collapsible Summicron and 50 R Summicron - the 50's edge it, baby.
 
I would love to learn to love the 35, but the 50 comes so natural for me... just the right distance to frame a scene when I really feel like I'm getting to it, 17-20 feet away... if I get closer, I get 1-2 people in a nicely cropped shot showing their feelings/actions... if I stay there, it becomes what a 35 would become if I was much closer.
 
i still prefer 50mm.

maybe because my parents used 35mm for all the family- and holdidays-shots, the look of this fl was for a long time too boring and snapshotlike for me.

but since a few months i have the tension to get wider...
 
I've been shooting a X100 (fixed 35 equivalent), now I have a X1P w/ 53 equivalent and it feels almost like a telephoto. I'm sure I'll get used to it again soon enough.
 
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