It turns out that 28mm is a focal length that I love using! I was worried that the shorter focal length would be unflattering for portraits and that I'd need to be so close that I influenced the picture. Turns out that I was close enough to influence before I had the 28mm, and when I'm a little ways back and not directing the photo it allows for some interesting environment to creep into the frame. For shots of kids, the little bit of distortion doesn't really harm anything - but I'll stick to something like a 50mm or 85mm if I'm doing formal shots...
I took it on a hike the other day and aside from putting on a zoom to get a few shots at 200mm I never really wanted anything else. Sure having fun with it :) The f/2 aperture really made a difference too - nice and bright to look through and in the woods I'm still getting 1/60s or 1/100s where my zoom would dump me down to 1/15 or 1/30s.
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