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Subject: [Leica] New For Leica Lens, From Another Leica Forum
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Thu Feb 23 14:00:03 2006

When the Pentax 43mm "normal" lens came out, the scuttlebutt at the time was
that 40-ish was what a "normal" lens would be, i.e., the lens that most
closely approximates what the eye would see. That said, I wonder why there
are so few of them. I have most of them, I think...

40/2 Summicron (Minolta)
43/1.9 Pentax
40/2.8 Sonnar
40/1.4 Nokton

It is a comfortable focal length. I have been shooting mostly 28mm lately,
but keep a 50 on a second camera with me. When I switch back to the 50, I
feel like I'm using a telephoto.

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Ric
Carter
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:08 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] New For Leica Lens, From Another Leica Forum


Isn't normal considered to be the diagonal of the film format? I  
think I learned that somewhere along the line. That would make normal  
for 35mm just a hair over 43.3 mm. Maybe that number being about  
halfway between 35 and 50 would explain why average view is so hard  
for us to nail down--for some it's 35 and for others 50.

Ric Carter
http://gallery.leica-users.org/Passing-Fancies


On Feb 23, 2006, at 3:44 PM, bruce wrote:

> ................. in keeping with the years?
>
> B.
>
> On 23-feb-2006, at 21:33, GREG LORENZO wrote:
>
>> bruce <bruce@ralgo.nl> writes:
>>
>>> Why do they always have to make 50mm lenses .................. as if 
>>> they are the most important? Why not a 10mm, with a good viewfi 
>>> ............ you don't need that ............... just use your eyes 
>>> ........... point and shoot.
>>>
>>> B.
>>>
>>
>> 50mm on most 35mm camera systems is considered normal. So lots of
>> good existing lens designs around. Images created with a 35mm  
>> focal lenght lens 40 years ago were called wide angle shots.
>>
>> Lately 40mm seems to be more the norm.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
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