I usually like wides- my previous favorite was the Mamiya 7 43mm lens- simply amazing, but I've become partial to the Mamiya Universal 100mm f/2.8. It's the best lens I've ever used- from very soft out of focus areas wide open (yet extraordinarily sharp in the plane of focus) to it's color rendition, it's simply wonderful; it's completely competent. It's the first normal lens of which I have no worries so far as "gotchas," like the wide open bokeh on the Tessar/Novar lenses, which I find un-pleasing.