are you a wide or narrow photog?

[jtk]

It'd be a 35 or a 50...maybe I'd learn to love a 90.

 

Looking at my own 21/24/20/25/28 etc, it tends to look the same, except when I used them for architectural purposes... the subject becomes distortion rather than image, as with examples on this thread.

 

That said, I've seen some great environmental portraits (by other people!) with 21 where the subject person was small in the larger image: the distortion wasn't noticed because of the importance of the person in the image.

 

When necessary I use an FDSSC 24/2.8 and a CV 25/4: wonderful lenses but they gather dust.

[christopher_a._junker1]

Travis,

 

Used both focal lengths, but my one lens preference is a good 50. If I had to chose between the 21 and 90, it would be the 90 because of the portraits still to come. Make it a really great, but compact 90.

[subpopstar]

First I'd try to bargin, but if those were truly the only two choices I'd go for the 21mm. I'd rather the choice be 25, but I'd learn to live with it...

[raymond_tai]

28mm. If I must choose between 21mm and 90mm I would take the 21mm since that becomes a 28mm with the digital M's 1.3x crop :)

[travis1]

i'll take the 21mm too. I'd rather step forward then backwards.

[OCULUS New York]

I find that the older I get, the wider I go (photographically and physically, unfortunately). On my two most-used bodies, I keep the 21 and 28 mounted all the time, with a Heliar in the bag. Only recently acquired a 90mm via a CL purchase.

 

However, forever is a long time.

 

Cheers,

Ray Hull