At 12:35 7/11/01, Oben Candemir wrote:
No hehehe you are right :) Nor the 35 /2. But I think I have the good stuff.
I probably will never get the 85/2, 50/2 nor the 20/2, or 35/2.
The 85/2 and 35/2 are unsung heroes of the Zuikos. I don't see myself
needing the 90/2 Macro with the 85/2 and auto tubes. Aside from macros the
85/2 is an interesting length for tight portraiture; almost exactly twice
that of the 35mm format diagonal. The perspective has a little more depth
than the 100/2 (also superb for portraiture) and yet it avoids the problems
encountered with the perspective created by moving in too tight with a
50mm. It and the 135/2.8 are my most used lenses with the auto tubes for
standard macros in the field (TOPE entries notwithstanding).
The 35/2 is very forgiving of unnatural perspectives created by room
corners shooting indoors in tight quarters. Much more so than the 28mm or
especially the 24mm (but not quite as much as the 40/2). There are two
popular sequences of focal lengths going from super-wide to standard that
have a natural jump between them in the perspectives rendered:
a. 21 --> 28 --> 50
b. 18 --> 24 --> 35 --> 50
PJ's in days of yore . . .
when all one had were primes with auxiliary viewfinders for the accessory
shoe, accomplishing the focusing through squinty viewfinders, and wound to
the next frame with a knob by using two quick twists of the wrist, before
the world was turned upside down with prisms and mirrors that made viewing
lens = taking lens, film advance levers, and the age of zooms that has made
perspective control all but a lost art . . .
would put a 28mm or 35mm prime on the 35mm RF body. They could be had in
reasonable speed (f/2.8) and quickly became the two most popular focal
lengths for that work.
Why?
They were long enough not to get into perspective trouble too easily, short
enough not to get into distance problems too often working it tight
quarters, had greater DOF for a given distance and aperture (compared to a
50mm), which also allowed using hyperfocal focusing for f/8 at a fairly
close distance. Look at many of the fixed focal length P&S's today. Many
have 35mm lenses on them and I prefer the 35/2 for that type of work today,
all for the same reasons.
And IMHO those characteristics are what make the 85/2 and 35/2 special lenses.
-- John
[Champion of the unsung heros among the fast Zuikos.]
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