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Originally Posted by marknorton
It's interesting to see how little difference there is between 16 and 18mm... I think I would have settled for a 16mm lens and be done with it.
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the difference is being under-emphasized by the crop factor in the camera-
this goes to how all lenses render on reduced sensors, you have to back up to get the same field of view, and then all the "character" goes out of the lens-for example there was a post here about the leica 24 and filters the gentleman had used on his M7-what was striking was how the foreground was exaggerated and it had that "wide angle" feel, my thoughts were, yes, that is how a 24 should "look" you can get close but still see everything.
On cropped sensors a lot of that feel is lost because you are not in the same location and the perspective exaggeration is lost. It reduces the "spatiality" of wide angle lenses on the M8, everything seems "flatter."
IMO, this is one of the biggest downfalls of any reduced frame camera, the upending of traditional lens/drawing relationships.
<edit> maybe that is not quite right, as you could stay in the same place and just exchange lenses for wider, but I do believe the "drawing" will still be differrent.