"35mm lenses are ideal for ________"

[aizan]

if 35mm is your primary focal length, please fill in the blank. i haven't gotten a new lens in ages, being a 28/50mm guy since the beginning, and i'm thinking about getting the 35mm summilux asph. not sure about the flare suppression, but i'd like the extra stop and smoother fingerprint over the 35mm summicron asph. one lens and one body does have its appeal, though i'm reluctant as the 35mm focal length seems to be the "second best lens for everything".

 

[haagen_dazs]

hipshooting

 

[ChrisPlatt]

photography.

Probably >80% of my photos call for a 35mm lens
(though sometimes I am forced to settle for 40mm).

I agree, the 35mm best approximates what I see with both eyes.
Gouge out one of my eyes and I'll only see 50mm... 😉

Chris

 

[back alley]

one camera/one lens shooting.

with the zi kit, i use either the 25/50 combo or just the 35.

 

[trittium]

getting the ladies 😉

 

[mervynyan]

getting the ladies 😉

only 35mm😀

 

[aizan]

i need more GAS. the 35mm balloon is shrinking...shrinking...

 

[RayPA]

...in general probably 66% of all things photographic.


🙂

 

[aizan]

funny story. i just looked through the 35mm summilux and summicron groups on flickr, and most of the pics i liked were taken on the m8.

update: the 28mm elmarit group and searching for 28 'cron pics (why no group?) turned up lots of good shots, mostly film, but a good number on the m8. the 35 seems more like a 28 than a 50.

 

[maddoc]

one camera/one lens shooting.

with the zi kit, i use either the 25/50 combo or just the 35.

second this ... one lens / one camera shooting. Alternatively, I use the 28 2.8/50 1.4 combo but the Summilux 35mm (pre-asph) gives me the "extra stop" in low light and is still wide enough...

 

[Doug]

"35mm lenses are ideal for the one-lens vacation kit."

 

[Bryce]

It is the closest thing to a true normal lens- sees things like your eyes do. So it is just as often too long as too short, and that makes it a great one lens package.
The 50 became 'normal' because it was easy to engineer; the 28 had to be the first 'supplementary' lens because 50's are usually too long. 35/ 40 is what the 50 would've been in a perfect world...
So say I.

 

[lZr]

.........if impossible to decide.

 

[iml]

...selling.

It's a neither one thing nor the other focal length, to me at least 🙂

Ian

 

[payasam]

The M2 was made specifically to meet the demand of the many who found the absence of a 35 mm frame in the first M's finder a handicap.

 

[dexdog]

as a standard lens.

 

[Magus]

Post deleted by posters request

 

[oftheherd]

Paperweight. 😀

OK, first off, I don't do 35mm rf so I probably shouldn't comment. But in SLRdom, I just never could take a liking to it. Not that much shorter than 50mm, nor as wide as 28mm. Funny though, with my 35-85mm, I am not afraid to use it at 35mm if I need. But, as a single focal length lens, it just never excited me.

As to 50mm being easier to engineer than 35mm, I don't think that was the reason, it just isn't that different. I always read it had to do with angle of view being closer to our eyes angle of view. Seems it also works out close to the diagonal of the film being considered "normal."

 

[ferider]

35 is a poor approximation to 40.

When I look at the world with one eye I see it with a 40mm FOV,
with two eyes with a 28mm FOV.

50 is for portraits.

I have many 40s but only one 35. That one I keep for size and in
combo with a 75.

Roland.

 

[micromontenegro]

To leave it home when you go out with a 21 and a 50. ;-)
Sorry, I don`t like 35mm too much. As we say in Venezuela, no es ni chicha ni limonada. (Approx. translation: it isn't flesh nor fish nor bone.