Originally posted by gokenin So then if I wanted to take my 43 ltd and use it as an everyday lens on any of my film cameras (except the spotmatic) it would be a good walk around lens?
Very nice, I think. 50-55mm is to me the most 'normal' in terms of how things relate to each other in space, but FOV wise, I like the neighborhood of 40mm for a lot of things. To me it's 'semi-wide' but I like things a little tighter than convention. (where many would like to use a 35, I like more like 40, as I learned from Canonets and a zoom.
If my fast 50mm on my Canons were a 58, that'd be just nice, too. )
I find that with digital, I can carry one 28mm (which equates to about a 43) and it'll do the job of a 35 and a 50. Since I live in the short portrait lengths, mostly, it's very useful. I joke that on my old film Canons, if someone glued my 85 on there, I might not notice for a few weeks, but if I could only have one other focal length, it'd probably be around 43.