Could you be happy with only a 35mm lens?

In the '70s, I cut my teeth on 50mm lenses. That was the kit lens that came with everything, it seems. Still use only the 50mm fast lenses.

Zooms are nice for the SLR's especially, the higher end zooms for a lot of applications. But for RF, it's strictly 50mm with a desire for a 90mm, or a 75 asap.:angel:
 
I usually want a longer lens even though I walk around with a 50mm. Every once in awhile I like a wider one, but most of the time I do not feel like a little composure will not give me what I want with a 50mm. Although I wanted a wide yesterday, but managed to fudge around to get what I wanted.
 
If picking one single focal length for everything is the story, yes, no doubt... A 40 starts to make me feel a bit narrow, and a 28 is too wide if you don't want to "be there"...

Cheers,

Juan
 
Most of times I carry with me a 50mm in a pocket (and the 35 is on the camera). But 75% of my photo are made with the 35. In the last weeks I'm just forcing myself to shoot more 50mm, but this is an exercise...
robert
PS and when printing I can slightly crop the photos from the 35 if necessary, I know someone will find this an horrible statement...sorry.
 
As far as rangefinders go, yes- one 35mm lens is all i need, and what i get 99% of my RF enjoyment out of. I've had the 35/1.4 Voigtlander (wonderful) and several Canon 35/2 LTM's. Currently i have a Canon f2 welded to my P.

On SLR's i prefer 50's.
 
Yes, I can be happy with only 35mm lenses.
RF, SLR, MF, no matter.

But I'm also very glad that I don't have to limit myself to that degree.

I don't like 50mm focal length, always had to take steps back.
But in cases that I don't have a choice, like when using TLRs, I could get by.
 
Most of my professional work is done with a 50mm, and that is all I bring with me when on vacation with my family. I could probably do with just a 35mm as well....
 
I could use a 35mm all the time but there would be some shots that I would not be able to take. It would be an adjustment period for me although I use a 35mm about 80 to 90% of the time now. Jim
 
I really like the 35mm focal length, it's become my standard on my Sony Nex (well, 25mm skopar=~40m). I don't think I could do without a fast 50mm (~80mm) as well.

Voigtlander 25mm Skopar on Sony Nex

 
35mm lens is a great focal length on 135. It can be a portrait lens if you get close enough to your subject (with little or no distortion) and wide angle at little away (again little or no distortion). I think I could live...I never used 40 but I used 45mm and they are great too. Maybe I should get a 40mm summicron and live with it. However I was scared about possible focusing problems on M as it is a CL lens.
 
Love my 35 and that's what I use most of the time, but I do like to challenge myself with a 50 every once in a while.
 
I've went from 50mm to 40mm to 35mm in three or four years. Oh and I did use Sigma DP1 for one summer, so there was a 28mm somewhere in between. I've always been one camera and a lens at a time kinda guy once I got over trying out different focal lengths on a DSLR.

I think it helps to get really familiar with one focal length at a time, so you can pre-frame pictures without taking the camera to your eye.

Now the only camera I use is X100, so it's 35mm only. I'm enjoying it a lot.
 
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