I love shooting black and white with my Leica M9. I've almost given up shooting colour, but I guess its just a personal choice. Maybe it stems from my Monochrome days when I was still shooting film. Here I was shooting in the shadows on a very sunny day. So there naturally was a lot of contrast. Being a 25 mm wide angle lens, it naturally projects a fairly deep depth of field, even at wide open. The aperture was set at F4.0, so good depth resulted. But had I been shooting with say, a 50 mm lens, with the same aperture, the depth of field would have been shallower. And had I taken the picture with a 90 mm at F 4.0, the depth of field would have been even more shallow. This is the way lenses work. Many point and shoot cameras do not project nice Bokeh, which results from out of focus background when shooting wide open. These point and shoot cameras do not have the wide aperture option that a prime lens on a DSLR or rangefinder camera permits, nor the quality of glass. But they can take nice landscape pictures. The subject matter in the above shot needs a greater depth of field, and that is why wide angle lenses are a good choice for landscape photography.
