Dear Flexers, David's enumeration some time ago of "normal" focal lengths of different formats made a light dawn for me and I hereby thank him. The blinding glimpse of the obvious was that the "normal" focal length for the DMR was about 36 mm; I certainly knew that but I did not realize what it meant to me as a practical matter. In contrast to David, who said he "sees" long, I tend to "see" normal or shorter. So the DMR meant that I had lost the "wider than normal" capability that I had carried with me for twenty years using 35-70 mm zooms and film, where 50 mm was "normal." The fix? Since I plan to use this rig for a long time, I traded my 35-70 f/4 V-E zoom for a used (naturally) V-E 28-90 zoom to use as my walking-around-lens and now my intuition about framing has been restored, with my customary range of shorter and longer lenses around the 35/36 mm "normal" once again available to me. The change in comfort for me has been dramatic; happy days are here again. Now to make my pocketbook happy! As ever, Bill ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/