Originally posted by tuco Okay. Again my taste but I have the 45mm and tried it on people. Sure, you can but you can get a lot of distorted faces out near the edge of the frame from convergence/divergence if you don't hold that camera horizontal. For me, the 55/4 gets me decent DOF for zone focusing, lets me aim the camera up and down more, allows me to concentrate more on what I'm shooting (i.e. not worry about being horizontal so much and who is out on the edge of the frame) and with more successful people pictures. YMMV.
Hey Tuco,
We're really saying the same thing. For example, I remember one of the earliest photo stories I shot where I got this the way I wanted. I shot a custom jeweler working on a commission. I used the 20mm to center him in the frame surrounded by his tools and a cornucopia of materials. I used an LX with a grid focusing screen to keep things laid out the way I needed. Then I switched to a second LX with my Pentax 100 Macro to show very tight views of just his fingers, tools and the work.
So I ended up getting the 200 f4; KEH had one for a fantastic price and I couldn't pass it up! Going to load up some Tri-X and see how it goes...
Cjf