favourite focal length on a 35mm/full frame
Aug 19, 2015 08:46:27 #
OldEarl wrote:
I tend to use a 35 as my close to normal lens on double frame 35mm camera. I also have a 21 and a 24 if I need wider. I knew a couple of working photographers whose primary battery on their Leicas was 28 and 90--it worked for them.
Lens choice is a matter of personal perspective. If everyone was the same I would never have had a job explaining equipment to my retail customers.
Lens choice is a matter of personal perspective. If everyone was the same I would never have had a job explaining equipment to my retail customers.
'Double frame'? Is that the same as full frame? Not criticizing, just making sure I understand you.
Aug 19, 2015 18:23:58 #
OldEarl
Loc: Northeast Kansas
rocketride wrote:
'Double frame'? Is that the same as full frame? Not criticizing, just making sure I understand you.
35mm began its life as a movie film. The name 35mm refers to the width of the film including sprockets. The movie camera used a frame approximately 16 or 17 by 24. Ernst Leitz built a still camera with a 24x36 frame which became the standard for still. Back in the late Pleistocene a company called Olympus built single frame cameras which gave twice the number of pictures per roll. I never got one--the eyesight that kept me out of the pilot's seat kept me away from very small negatives. So Herr Leitz's camera--Leica for short--is a double frame--and the Pen F is a single rather than half frame.
Aug 20, 2015 10:38:04 #
OldEarl wrote:
35mm began its life as a movie film. The name 35m... (show quote)
The history you give of the formats matches my recollections. What you call 'double frame' is what 'most everyone else calls 'full frame' because 35mm film's cinematic origins and original format are to them merely a historical footnote, if that.
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