best pic - 35, 40, or 50?

[chrismoret]

....me and my Biogon T 35/2.0...a love story

 

[andredossantos]

Strangly enough I was hardcore wide angle guy, but now I am loving my 50mm, can not take it off my camera

Same here.

 

[alexnotalex]

50mm corresponds to how much of a scene I can see with one eye and how much I can remember ... I photograph the world through a CanonP with a 1:1 viewfinder

So the whole experience for me is seeing reality and recording memories. Summars and old Sonnars give a magical look even more like the images I see in my memories when I close my eyes.

best,
Alex (feeling romantic)

 

[fixbones]

I voted for 50mm.

It has been a journey of dicovery for me for the past year since i started using rangefinders.
Was back and forth between 35mm and 50mm but have since realized that 50mm is for me.

Whenever i see an image that i'd like to make, the 50mm always frames it nicely as opposed to 35mm.

 

[Keith]

This thread was started in 2006 ... now this is weird!

 

[barnwulf]

I agree, Keith. I wasn't part of the group in 2006 but I sometimes wonder how many times these same threads go around. I find myself clicking on a poll thread only to discover that I have already voted. When did I do that?

 

[uhligfd]

My best pics now certainly come from a Rolleiflex.


85 mm would be my best focal length then. But that does not show in the poll. Sorry.

And in 35 mm format the best come from 21 mm anyway.

 

[robbeiflex]

If you'd asked me this question three or four months ago I would have voted for the 50 without a moment's hesitation. The 50 is the lens that I learned on and, up until very recently, I was quite sure that I saw the world photographically through 50mm framelines. However, recently, I find that I am using the 50 less. I still use it often. But more and more I am reaching for my 35 and loving the results it is giving me. And now that I have a 21, don't even get me started!

My experience exactly, I couldn't have said it better myself!

 

[jsrockit]

I use 36mm (X1), 37.24mm and 46.55 lenses exclusively ... (M8).

 

[back alley]

i voted for 35mm but might change that for 50 now...of course it's all amuck with crop factors these days for me...but i cannot stop using that 50/1.1 lens, even on my panasonic g1!