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airfrogusmc wrote:
My advice is stick with a F/L for a while. A long while. Learn it inside and out. You won't miss shots, you'll just learn to see different shots. It takes discipline but one that will pay off in the long run. When I go on vacation I just take one camera and one lens. Usually my M 10 Mono and 35 Lux FLE.
I agree. Three different times, I used one focal length, for everything, for an extended time. Each time, I learned so very much. Twice, it was 50mm, though the first time ‘round was on an APS-C-format camera, a Canon EF 50mm f/1.8, so, a 1.6x crop factor.
One time, it was 100mm, because my main reason for starting interchangeable-lens cameras was to shoot macro, specifically evidentiary/forensic/crime scene photography, with an emphasis on the injuries on living, breathing crime victims, in my capacity as a first responder. As an antidote to the toxicity of man’s inhumanity to fellow humans, I photographed tons of flowers, butterflies, and puppies. (I did use a zoom lens, too, on the job, for “establishing” shots, and to frame the image when constrained by available space, but the workhorse was 100mm.)
Actually, I continued, off and on, to “train” with 100mm. As it was necessary to train with my duty pistol, to ensure the safety of myself and others, I needed to “stay sharp” with the 100mm lens. After I retired, in early 2018, I took a break of almost five years, from using 100mm and other short telephoto focal lengths. 50mm, specifically the Summilux-M ASPH, became my “therapy” lens.
The most recent time with 50mm, on a Leica M10, in April 2018, was to attempt* to re-learn how to love photographing much of anything, other than nature/birds, but this time with a lens having some amount of creative character, rather than top-tier, world-class sharpness. If I remember correctly, I stayed with 50mm until I started using an Elmarit-R 28mm lens, on an R-to-M adapter, in late 2018, about five to six months later. Even then, the exercise was to use the distance and DOF scales, rather than the rangefinder, which, of course, could not couple with an R lens, that was on an adapter. So, the 28mm R lens, on my M Type 246 Monochrom camera, and the 50mm Summilux, on my M10 camera, were two completely different beasts, with different techniques being used.
If I remember correctly, I did not really start using a 35mm lens until some time in 2019, about a year after I started using the 50mm Summilux on my first M camera. (I started with a new M10, but after a mishap, that required repair at Leica USA in NJ, bought a pre-owned 246 Monochrom, in order to “get back on the horse that threw me.” I felt so bad, about the mishap, that I was in danger of quitting photography.)
When I started using 35mm frequently, I sometimes used the distance and DOF scales, as if shooting with the 28mm R lens, and sometimes used the rangefinder, at which times it seemed that I was using a 50mm lens, but one that allowed me get the shot when the space was too restricted to frame the shot with a 50mm lens. 35mm, on M cameras, seems somewhat like a mid-range zoom, that does not actually zoom; a “convenience” lens. (Perhaps I should, sooner or later, go all-35mm, for a while, as a training exercise?)
*Sometimes, I think that I am still “attempting.”
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