The 28 with the M8 becomes, more or less, a 35 due to its crop factor and this always has been the "classical" focal lenght used by the most renowned practitioners of the M style of shooting . I think that using somenthing longer than a 50 is strange with a RF and it's in the wide angle area where this kind of camera really shines.
To put the "wrong" tool into the "right" context usually offers intersting results if one is capable of just turnning the supossed disadvantages or flaws generated into "carachteristic virtues". Every intelligent and capable artist knows how to deal with this.
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For current in production digital cameras only two the Canon and the Nikon D3 are truly full frame.
Early on with my switich to digital it took a while to get used to this, as an 80 looked like an 80 but cropped like a 110 etc. etc.
Yes the 28 on the M8 crops like a 35mm but doesn't "look" like a 35mm on a FF 35mm film camera, not that this is really good or bad, it's just different.
I've gone the full gamut of cameras, from 1.5 crops of the D2x (which I could never get used to ) to the p30/p21 1.3 crops which I don't really notice anymore.
though to get back to the original posters walk around camera needs, I also find it kind of strange to walk around with a medium format camera, or even a big dslr. It's so intrusive and quite honestly going out on a Sunday in NY with a Canon around my shoulder makes me feel somewhat like a tourists. (not that there is anything wrong with being a tourist )
When you look at all the camera companies that have come, gone and morphed into digital the one company that seemed to miss the boat was Contax. Imagine if they had partnered early on with somebody like phase. There could have been a digital G2, a real working dslr N and leaf shutters on the 645.
If that had happened it really would have been the only company that covered just about all the professional and serious amateur territory and the conversations we have today would be much different.
JR