Larry Towell - what focal lenght?

A video seen years ago he was speaking about his Mennonite Project and he used a canon 1V with 16-35mm, a Leica M6 with a 50 and he uses an x-pan quite a bit.
 
Thank you very much Jasonhupe. Just another short question, I don't want to post new thread. How do zooms like 16-35mm work? Do they stop only on fixed lenghts for example 24, 28, 35mm or you can take photos on 33, 29 setting? Sorry if it's silly question.
 
Every modern zoom I have seen or used you can float the zoom to any focal length.
so essential you can shoot at 16,17,18,19,20 and so on and on until you get to the end of the focal length.
 
Since it was on a Canon 1V (which is an slr), it can be used at any focal length, You rotate it, it goes there, theoretically you could probably use it at 24.3725mm.

From what I understand, zooms for rangefinders are different and only stop at certain (usually 3?) focal lengths.
 
The only true zoom for rangefinders that I'm aware of was the 35-70/3.5 Vario-Sonnar for the Kyocera Contax G2 & it behaves just like an SLR zoom. In contrast, the Tri-Elmars for the Leica M series aren't true zoom lenses, but have 3 different discrete focal lengths (28-35-50 & 16-18-21), so no intermediate focal lengths.

ChrisP said:
Since it was on a Canon 1V (which is an slr), it can be used at any focal length, You rotate it, it goes there, theoretically you could probably use it at 24.3725mm.

From what I understand, zooms for rangefinders are different and only stop at certain (usually 3?) focal lengths.
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Lets not forget the awesome Konica Hexanon 21mm/35mm Dual! Just 2 focal lengths, but superb sharpness.
 
There's a Vario-Elmar with three FLs. I think 35-50-90???

Ooops, it's 28,35, and 50
 
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