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I know is may sound somewhat bizarre; however, I am getting accustomed and like 28mm. It does a terrific job of drawing in the background, and I am starting to see in it.  

 

This remarkable epiphany comes despite the fact that I previously enjoyed the 70mm to 105mm the best. Anyone else in a similar situation because of the Q? 

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Well, I don't have a Leica Q ... still my situation is similar to yours. Like you, I also used to prefer the short telephoto range of focal lengths—but since I started using the Leica M I have gravitated towards 50 mm and 35 mm. The 28 mm focal length still isn't really in my comfort zone, yet I'm getting along with it much better now than I used to only a couple of years ago.

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Yes, me too.  In the past, I've cropped in so much on the subject on portraits that I never savoured the background at all. Now, the Q is helping me situate and contextualise so much better. I photographed a couple of elderly relatives in their kitchens last week. Once upon a time, I'd have gone straight for close head and shoulders shots. With the Q, it's actually quite poignant to shoot them in the surroundings of their own homes, with their belongings around them. I guess that's one aspect of the documentary style. And it's making me think about composition all over again. What a camera it is!

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I could pick up my °Q" last weekend, so I have only just started to explore it. Inspite of 28 mm fl it seems to prove being very versatile lens. For landscape it is just the right lens to find a good frame. For street it brings the stories about because you can plan your subject in its environment. People do not feel being watched because they do not recognize you as a serious photographer. Even portrait is possible. I could realize some nice samples during my concert rehearsals. Only in pp one has to reduce clarity a bit. I like the lens very much because there is no vignetting and no aberration.

I am really excited to go out into the field and forest, explore the city with architecture and street photography on the coming weekend.

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Worth mentioning that Don McCullin mainly used on two focal lengths for most of his career. 28mm and 135mm. He used the 28mm a lot for group portraits - the ones of the Beatles stick in my mind as well as the wonderful northern and east London scenes. Occasionally for portrait he would use the 135mm.

 

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It's a shame if 28mm is just being used to make sure that there is a keeper lurking in the frame somewhere.

 

Yes, if that were the only way it was used.

 

But it can be a useful quality though, not be be dismissed unless you are personally opposed to cropping in principle.

 

I'm not a Q owner, but a frequent user of 28mm on my M, and it's a wonderful focal length. Similar to an iPhone of course!

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There are quite few of the images on the Q image thread which I like.  What we are never told though is whether the image has been cropped.

 

That would be in interesting thing to know in order to get to understand how much people really are using the 28mm functionality of that camera.

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Some years ago I did a long 'round the world' trip and my only camera was the excellent little Ricoh GR1v (film not digital)  equipped with an excellent 28mm lens. Looking back at the pictures now I can see how well I adapted to the one wide angle lens though at the time I often wished for a more flexible focal length.

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