Sigma 35mm f1.4....?!!

OMG just got the lens and taken around 20 shots on my D800 this thing is knife edge sharp, makes my Nikon 50 1.8 look like a kids toy. Right Nifty is being sold and 50mm 1.4 Sigma on pre order :)
 
You cannot change the difference in focal length and field of view by walking backwards and forwards. There is a lot more to it than that. I prefer the look of a 50mm myself when outside, but like the 35mm inside.
 
Cartier-Bresson sums up the difference between the two nicely:

It [50mm] corresponds to a certain vision and at the same time has enough depth of focus, a thing you don’t have in longer lenses. I worked with a 90. It cuts much of the foreground if you take a landscape, but if people are running at you, there is no depth of focus. The 35 is splendid when needed, but extremely difficult to use if you want precision in composition. There are too many elements, and something is always in the wrong place. It is a beautiful lens at times when needed by what you see. But very often it is used by people who want to shout. Because you have a distortion, you have somebody in the foreground and it gives an effect. But I don’t like effects. There is something aggressive, and I don’t like that. Because when you shout, it is usually because you are short of arguments.
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http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/cartier-bresson-there-are-no-maybes/

That said, I've been using a 28mm for the past year, a 35mm starts feeling like a 50 and a 50 feels like a 90 to me!
 
It's all user preference. Some like 50, some like 35, some like 85... Some like them all. My range used to be 50, then I shot 85 and 35 more than with the 50 so sold the 50 :p

No shouting involved.
 
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