On aps-c i love the 50 for portraits. I like to work somewhat close though. My favorite normal lens on aps-c is 28mm...works out to 42mm or so. I hate 50mm on full frame, but 40ish is nice indeed. 35 is often too wide imo, though great for landscapes.
Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Jan 31, 2013, at 9:07 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > >> On Jan 31, 2013, at 19:34 , Mark C <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The 40mm XS is remarkably tiny. I love 40mm on a full frame camera >but it's not my favorite on the APC C bodies. But for an extra $90 >what's not to like about the lens? >>> >> >> I have my dad's old 40mm M lens. It's still...small. But for all >its awesome smallness, I never USE it. >> >> Worked great on the old MX. Black body, tiny lens, moderate >wide-angle... >> >> On my K7 I'd love the same form-factor in a... a... yeah, I think the >21mm is what I want. In my next lifetime. > >Funny, it's the same AoV as the 58/1.4 that was effectively my only >lens for about 20 years. The prime I almost never use on APS is my 50. >Too long for a standard, too wide for a portrait, unless I'm shooting >full body portraits. I think the reason I most often shoot at 50mm is >because my 16-50 won't go any further. > >I bet that a K01 with the new 40 would be an awesome coat pocket >camera. Just enough smaller than my DA40 on my K-x to make it a lot >easier to slip into a jacket or a cargo pocket. And in the digital >age, if you're doing a photo walk and it's not wide enough, just flip >it vertical and take a stitch pano with it. > >-- >Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est https://www.facebook.com/zosxaviusphotography -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
