Most Used "Street" Lens

[Messsucherkamera]

For me, it's my 28mm around 90-95% of the time.

I will occasionally use a 50mm though.

[jagwar.jim]

These days I use 35mm for street photography. I was using 50mm for a while and I really liked it. I used a Lomo which has a 32mm lens for a long time, so going back to 35 recently has been nice! I like the field of view that it gives you. I have dabbled in a 50mm on crop, so 85mm and that was kind of fun!

[dedmonds]

50mm for me

[grapejohnson]

50, sometimes 85. Even then, I feel like i'm too far away sometimes. Then again, I live in suburbia.

[sanmich]

Originally Posted by FrankS

It depends on how narrow and/or crowded the street is.

Exactly!
the lower the density street, the longer the focal (50) and vice versa (35, 28)

[Ronny]

40 is OK!....But not always....


Paris by Ronny Persson, on Flickr


Paris by Ronny Persson, on Flickr


Paris by Ronny Persson, on Flickr


Paris by Ronny Persson, on Flickr


Paris by Ronny Persson, on Flickr


Paris by Ronny Persson, on Flickr

[sanmich]

Nice pictures!
do you shoot from the hip, or bring the camera to your eye?

Originally Posted by Ronny

40 is OK!....But not always....

[Ronny]

Originally Posted by sanmich

Nice pictures!
do you shoot from the hip, or bring the camera to your eye?

Both, depends on the actual situation.

[Ron (Netherlands)]

M summicron 35mm (all types) & summaron 2.8

[bastian a.]

I prefer 35mm lenses for street photography (Summicron asph. or Summilux pre-asph.)
but sometimes it's a 50mm lens (Summicron IV).
Shorter lenses are more difficult because you have to get very, very near to your subject, but sometimes 21mm can be very interesting - and a challenge