Eh, I spent a lot of years in love with my 28mm. I still love it, for
that matter. I have an 18mm and love how fast and dirty you can get
with it, but you pretty much have to accept the way it sees the world
and find ways to make it work for you. I just remember being
fascinated by the reasons this listee quoted for 21mm lenses being
"ideal" in some sense and like so many things that stick in my head,
when I went back to try to find it for review I discovered I couldn't
lay my hand on it. I'm either really bad at searching the archives or
I have a really vivid imagination. ;-)
On Sep 5, 2005, at 5:09 PM, John A. Lind wrote:
> I'm certain someone at some time cited the 21mm as ideal for their
> street work. You'll likely get numerous opines from 21mm through 50mm
> as being ideal. For me, it's a tradeoff between being able to work
> adequately with urban street space constraints which limit working
> distances and perspective control. Perspective gets more difficult to
> work with as focal length decreases. I've used everything from
> 18mm to
> 200mm doing urban shooting, and let what I'm trying to accomplish
> in the
> photograph dictate focal length used.
>
> One of the most favored focal lengths by news and editorial
> photographers prior to the advent of decent zoom lenses was the 35mm.
> Some preferred the 28mm. It let one get in a decently wide field of
> view without requiring the careful attention to perspective that 24mm
> and shorter lengths demand.
>
> -- John Lind
>
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