I like the notion of the 115-210 combo just like a 28/35 and 50 in 35mm are a good combo. Or streamline even more and go with one lens, a 135 or 150 (about like a 40 in 35mm).
I really dislike the distortion of space that the extreme lenses have, both long and wide. Especially ultra-wide. I think it looks a lot better to do two or three shots with the normal lens and stitch if you really want to describe a landscape or scene. The wides always foreshorten everything too much and usually the furthest away subject is the most interesting - but the wide makes it smaller.
The longer lenses flatten the subjects too much I think. It makes it easier to get depth of field related separation but you lose the sense of roundness and mass. I know that sounds like art bullshit but it's what I see.
So the closer to normal lenses feel more like the focal length and field of our eyes, the pictures have a sense of reality. But maybe if you packed 20 miles up a mountain trail to capture an alpine lake you want to distort it with a 75mm so you can get everything in the shot, and that's cool too, I understand.
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