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...I have been told that the 40mm - which is 60mm eq on the NEX - would be kind of odd to use as a fixed lens, because you'd have to stay quite far when the subject is a group of people and quite close to do a portrait, it doesn't fit to inside photography because it's too long, with macro or still-life wouldn't fit too because you have not enough optic enlargement and panoramic photos would be impossible.



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Of course, it is less wide than a wide lens. And less tele than a tele lens. So all that is kind of true.



However, it might just be a focal length you will really like. That is personal.



I use my 35mm f2 quite often on my Canon APS-C. With the Canon APS-C crop factor (1.6x) that is very close to 40mm on NEX!



And that makes both (35mm on Canon, 40mm on NEX) very close to standard focal length, the most versatile one.



I use it for panoramic photos (stitching multiple shots):







For moderate wide angle (stitching 2 images):



As "normal" lens:





And as close up (semi-macro) lens with 12mm extension tube:







Just to illustrate how versatile a focal length it actually can be. Wide gets wide/panoramic by shooting multiple images with it, and close ups are done with an extension tube added between it and the camera. I would not mind it as a fixed lens at all. Although I might want to add a 24mm lens to it, for street photography and indoors snapshots of people.