[Leica] More about the 75mm

[rangefinder at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)]

Don, Luis

My few cents about the 75mm:
How much the 75mm is appreciated depends on how important the 50mm is for 
one. If the 50mm is indispensable, the 75mm makes less sense to carry with, 
and a 90mm seems to be the better addition. But if the 35mm (or even 28mm) 
is your most important glass, then the 75mm makes a lot of sense.

But if the 50mm is indispensable, you will add two lenses when you go out 
with more than one lens: 35-50-90 (or 28-50-90). A 2-lens set with the 50 
makes less sense than a 35-75 combination, which I carry very often in my 
LowePro Micro bag.

But I prefer going out without bag, just one camera/one lens in my pocket. 
The 50mm is the lens that stays at home, mostly. Dont know why. It's always 
either not wide enough or too much tele for me. The 28, or the 35 or the 75 
are my usual choice, depending on my mood, and many other factors like the 
location I go to, the light conditions that will be there, the weather, 
available pocket-size and others.

Sometimes I even dont care about focal length and speed and just take 
anyone of my lenses and look what could be shot with it. Sounds silly, but 
makes fun (as I'm not a pro).

To come back to the 75 Summilux - beside it's unique fingerprint, it's much 
more versatile than for shooting portraits only:

Street:
The 75 is great if you dont want to shoot wide angle architecture, but more 
people or details with bokeh behind and in front of it. You can capture it 
without going as close as with a 50 or a 35; and it has less tele-look than 
a 90 mm.

In clubs, concerts, theatres, museums:
Here the 75 Summilux is at it's best - ideal in speed, ideal in focal 
length (maybe except if you're shooting Madonna in a football stadium). The 
2/90 Summicron is ok from the focal length, but a notch too slow.

Didier