I've gotta say that I'm amazed at the diversity of people here on the
list, just among those who've taken the time to respond to this. There
are people who carry two or three superfast wide-angle primes, people
who carry a favorite giganto-zoom, someone who carries a couple of
compact lenses in his coat pocket, people who just carry a 50...there's
a real assortment of photographers here. I was kind of expecting some
consensus with a slight variation. "Oh, of course we all carry such and
such because the variable of the cosign of the internodal convergence
overlaps at the second function of the whoosits." It's really cool to
see that there's so much variety here, though. Among the folks who
operate at Manhattan Project levels there are a lot of people with very
quirky and personal reasons for carrying what they do.
For myself, I lean towards wide angle lenses a lot because I tend to
feel that the narrow angle of incidence in long focal lengths can feel
really claustrophobic. I start to feel like it's crossing the line from
photography into surveillance above 135mm a lot of the time. Then
again, I'm not really a photographer, I'm just a guy who likes to take
pictures.
-Rob
On Tuesday, December 3, 2002, at 02:11 PM, Brian Swale wrote:
But I must say I am puzzled about so many people preferring a wide
angle
as a standard lens. Even as wide as 21 or 24mm.
I tend to use the other end of the focal length scale.
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