On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 11:26:31PM -0500, Malcolm Clay wrote:
> It seems like I once read some photographer recommended that you have lenses
> that were multiples of 1.8 (or some kind of factor) in mm to get decent
> useful spread of lenses for money spent. Can anybody remember: 1. What that
> multiple is? 2. Who said it? and probably most important 3. Is/was it viewed
> as good advice or voodoo photography.
I´ve read an old article about this issue. The autor says that a lot of fellows
think that 1:1.6
would be voodoo. This factor gives the lineup 50-85-135-200. But he thinks
that this
is a lot of glass and suppose to use the factor 2 instead: 50-100-200 is much
smarter.
But as usual personal preference decides.
I prefer large factors too. Today, when you always want to have the perfect
focal
lenght, I think zooms are the right choice.
In my experience I don`t like lenses which are about 1:1.5 to each other.
I can get a simmilar (horizontal) area when turning the camera to vertical
frame.
Frieder Faig
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