Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>>>>>>>>>>>.---------- Initially, my original post asked about the approach to seeing with a 50mm lens. I got one good reply, ========================= Well I'll offer my thoughts, but it might not count as another 'good reply'. I too, have been using a 35mm lens for so long as a standard lens for perhaps 95% of my shots that the expectation of what I'll see in the v/f when I raise it to the eye is as near dammit the shot I'm expecting to see. I recently did use the 50 for rather more than the odd shot and was surprised to see how much of a, relatively speaking, 'telephoto/long focus lens' it appeared to be. I'm sure it's just a case of what we get accustomed to, and in this sense the (pre) visualisation that we can have with our normal or favourite lens can assist us greatly in taking photos without having to peer through the v/f if neccersary. Mind you. There's probably a whole lot of difference between knowing what the shot's going to look like from in front of your eyes (at normal level) and held awkwardly near the hip... jem