Favorite Lens length

Favorite Lens length

  • 20mm

    Votes: 26 2.4%

  • 24mm

    Votes: 33 3.1%

  • 28mm

    Votes: 80 7.4%

  • 35mm

    Votes: 353 32.7%

  • 40mm

    Votes: 124 11.5%

  • 50mm

    Votes: 400 37.1%

  • 75mm

    Votes: 29 2.7%

  • 90mm

    Votes: 28 2.6%

  • 135mm

    Votes: 5 0.5%
  • Total voters
    1,078
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As a rangefinder user and photographer, we usually have a favorite lens that we use. One of the reason you have that RF or that lens is because of the length. My question is what is you favorite lens length? Why?

My favorite has been the 35mm world. Though I do love a good portrait lens, I enjoy the storytelling capabilities of the 35mm. Speed of the lens is not as important for me here.
 
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I'm not creative nor imaginative, so 50mm is my favourite. What I see with my eyes will be roughly the same as what the lens will see.

I think I have to hide that 50mm in a maze so I will be forced to use this new 35mm.
 
I voted for 40. I shoot a lot with 35mm, but I feel all the time the want for a 28 or 50. 35 is too in the middle for me. 40 satisfies my want for a little more focal length, but still allows me to step back and get just a little wide. I think a 28, 40 kit will work best for me.
 
I like standard lenses, so the standard 100mm for my camera is perfect- it's also the brightest at f/2.8.
 
I love my 35, but lately I've had an infatuation with my 15. It's been challenging to "see" that wide.
 
I'm finding pretty difficult to stay away from the 35 and learn to 'see' again with the 50 is not easy to me. But I think it's sort of necessary to change sometimes. I liked a lot the 24 on my SLRs but for some reason I can't see that wide lately.

Anyway if I had to choose one it would be the 35 for sure.
 
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preferring the 40mm equivalent FOV ... (though it's actually 25mm or 28mm on my RD-1), so my vote goes there.

need to add that the 50mm (75mm equivalent) are pretty close in popularity.
 
I really like the 40mm. I hadn't used one before I got the Prinz, and now it's my favourite length. :)
 

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I voted 40mm, but I have been moving toward the 35mm side lately. I have been using more hyperfocal, and the 28 still seems a bit wide for day to day.
 
I strayed from the 50 for a time, only to come back to it as my favorite. 50 is harder to compose than a wide-angle. Wide-angles lend themselves to easier geometric juxtaposition. But a well composed 50 gives you greater intimacy. my 2 cents.
 
I voted for 40 eventhough I nearly voted for 20. I love my 21mm for the SLR; an R4M body might open up even more worlds for its use.
 
I take too many family/people shots and don't like the facial distortion you get with a 35mm....50mm gives you more options.
 
I used to like 35s, but now I'm in love with 50s. I now wish I would have kept my M3...
 
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