Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]One reason a 24 is not too close to a 28 is that in my opinion: A 24 is not too close to a 24. I have a handful of 28's; And ditto of 24's. - a certain department of redundancy department issues.... What is going on here? 1. In the film days I'd have two cameras going one with black and white one with color or whatever and similar lenses on each cameras were needed. 2. one 28 might be a compact slow version while the other one might be a big clunky fast version I'm not likely to be carefully carrying around but only using when I really need it - where I wanted to isolate subjects or shoot hand held wide open; a low light lens. 3. in reality the reason why I have redundancy issues in glass often is I'll have an older version and then I'll get a newer version. AI to AF maybe in the Nikon system. C to CF in the Hassy system. They all come in handy. I've never been one to trade stuff in for nothing or just sell stuff ultra cheap when it can be and had all the while of great use to me. Backups are great. Don't put all your 24's on one pocket. You can have one with a red filter on it and one with a green filter on it. One on a body with IR film. One in the glove department of your jet. Its ok for things to be very close together in focal length as much as its ok for them to be 0 degrees apart. Redundancy fights for you. It makes you less afraid. Mark William Rabiner