[Leica] 50mm lenses should be compulsory.

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Except that....The lens you use often 'controls' where you stand... ;-)

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From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Beddoe, Neil
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 7:32 AM
To: 'Leica Users Group'; 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] 50mm lenses should be compulsory.


" Lenses of different focal lengths do have
characteristics, based on their focal lengths, other than getting more
or less in the frame."

I disagree.  Take a picture with a 50mm lens (or even a 21mm lens) and
crop to the middle of the picture and you've got the same shot you would
have got from the same spot with a 90mm lens(grain and DOF excluded).
You are right about my choice of lens though ( at least it made for  a
provocative subject line).  I'm sure that if my M6 had come with a 35mm
I'd be raving about that.  The point is that the lens you use is usually
much less important than where you stand.

Neil



I am pleased that the 50mm lens worked for you, especially when it was
your only lens.  However, I submit for your consideration that its being
a 50mm lens had far less to do with your success than the discipline
enforced by using only one lens.  It could have been a 35mm, it could
have been a 90mm, but it is the fact of having only one lens that made
you work harder at each picture you took.
 
        Buzz Hausner

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Beddoe, Neil
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:49 AM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: [Leica] 50mm lenses should be compulsory.


As everyone knows, you don't alter the viewpoint when you switch to a
wider or longer lens, you just get more or less in the frame.  In most
cases, you can do this by walking forwards or backwards and at the same
time see what changing perspective does to your shot which is much more
interesting than just optically cropping the photograph.  

I like feet but I hate zooms.

Neil


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