Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 6/24/99 11:26:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, bdcolen@earthlink.net writes: << Don't leave the 35 home...The 35 is close to normal, the 15 is wayyyyyyywiiiiiiiiide... >> I plan to have the15, 28, 50 and 90 (roughly doubles in focal length). I've always found the 35 to be the least-useful lens in the bag. Not very wide, but not all the way to normal. - ---- This is what makes for horse races, or photos of horse races....If I could only own one Leica lens, without question it would be the 35 Summilux ASPH...I find the 35 to be the ideal focal length...I think the ideal two-lens outfit would be the 35 S ASPH and the 75 Summilux.... I find the 35 moderate enough to be "normal," but also just wide enough to be "wide." The 28, in MHO, is just too wide to be normal, and not wide enough to be usefully wide.. But, hey, that's why Leitz and all the other majors stay in business and produce so many different focal lengths..:-) B. D.