Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/31

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Subject: [Leica] Question for M8ers
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Thu Jul 31 18:30:50 2008
References: <77A6D7D6-41B1-4684-A49C-E0AA93A320CF@mindspring.com>

I've definitely moved to wider lenses and now have a 35mm sumicron on
the camera most of the time or the 24mm CV or the 15mm CV. The 50s get
much less use than they used to and the 90mm f2.8 hardly any these
days. Complete change.

Adam

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Ric Carter <ricc@mindspring.com> wrote:
> Okay, I have a pretty good feel for the physics of full frame versus M8 
> cell
> conversion -- 1.3 multiplication -- field of view versus focal length --
> that stuff. That's not what I'm looking for here.
>
> Now the question for M8 users.
>
> Did your favorite or standard or most often used lens change from classic M
> to M8?
>
> If you used to like 50s , have you switched to 35s? If you old favorite was
> 35s, are you using the 28 mostly now?
> Did 50 lovers stay with 50?
>
> Are you less likely to use 90 or 135?
>
> Are you more likely to use ultra-wides?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ric Carter
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/ricc/
>
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