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Re: [OM] wide angles

Subject: Re: [OM] wide angles
From: "Tom Trottier" <TomATrottier@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 14:54:50 -0500
Hi Joseph

And, you can always crop

Tom

On 28 Jan 00, at 21:08, Joseph spoke about
*[OM] wide angles..* saying
...
> 35mm shooters get bogged down on having as dense a sequence of
> focal lengths as possible.  In medium format, the weight, and for
> amateur shooters, the cost prevent carrying as many lenses and you
> quickly find that you don't need so many.  Once upon a time, 35mm
> camera makers published in their owner's manuals that you should
> acquire lenses in a 2x increasing sequence of focal lengths.  Over
> time, as they designed a wider selection of lenses, they dropped
> this number to 1.6x to sell more lenses.  with today's zooms, there
> is the occasional perception that you have to have every focal
> length covered, but that really isn't true. 
...
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