craygc
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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...
gb hill
Veteran
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.George Bonanno
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Your probably right, but I did say should instead of would
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.
maggieo
More Deadly
50.
Often it's this one:
Leica M4-P With 50mm f2 Jupiter-8 Lens, April, 2010 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr
Often it's this one:
Leica M4-P With 50mm f2 Jupiter-8 Lens, April, 2010 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr
bgb
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Oh so very funny seeing that I have only one eye and prefer the 50mm or a 24mm.
35mm is ok i guess but it's not really for me
Paul Jenkin
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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.
Take a look at Alan Soon's fine street shots in Istanbul: The 2003 work was shot (mostly/all?) with a 21mm Skopar. Impressive job at not making the wide perspective intrusive. Then it appears he was using a 50 Skopar in the 2007 stuff.
http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=322503
http://photo.net/photodb/folder?folder_id=322503
n5jrn
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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.
Lss
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I think (and voted) a 35. But I generally use a 50.
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.
Fricetix
Photography obsession
I prefer 50mm but 35mm is cool too.
dee
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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 .
DominikDUK
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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
Dominik
Bill Clark
Veteran
I'm cheating, because a lens I use quite a lot is the 24-70 f2.8 tele. from Canon.
I don't use the 35 or 50 that often! Sorry.
I don't use the 35 or 50 that often! Sorry.
helen.HH
To Light & Love ...
Back to Celebrating the 50 mm.....Yippee !!
ChrisN
Striving
Mongo Park
Established
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.
drec
Rangeflounder
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.
Peter_wrote:
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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...
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...
celluloidprop
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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.