Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> That is only your opinion. I respect it. But I find it is interesting > that you comment on lenses other than the one I had mentioned, but > that is typical when people would like to justify a point of view a > any cost. > Cheers > Jayanand > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:01 PM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net > <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote: >> Jayanand Govindaraj wrote: >> >>>>> >> Well, you have to live with inferior low light performance in that >> case. I think that the Nikon 200-400 is no slouch though, and at the >> normal print sizes that you have for sale nobody would be able to tell >> the difference from your 280 APO-Telyt. >> <<< >> >> Since the first person I have to satisfy is myself, high-ISO performance >> only interests me if it comes with DMR image quality. ?Comparing the 280mm >> f/4 APO-Telyt's performance with the AF 300mm f/4 ED-IF I bought for my >> brother or the pre-IF 300mm f/4.5 ED I still have and which Bj?rn R?rslett >> rates so highly, sorry to be so blunt but neither of these Nikkors >> measures >> up to the APO-Telyt, optically, mechanically or ergonomically. ?Not even >> close. >> >> Doug Herr >> Birdman of Sacramento >> http://www.willdightphoto.com I wanted to see for myself how gorgeous the f4 280 APO-Telyt was so I scoured the internet finally finding the best shot all exited to show Doug maybe he hadn't seen it before. On a Leicaflex yet! http://www.wildlightphoto.com/leica/280a40.jpg But then the phrase wildlightphoto kind of rang a bell. Most of the shots of I found where on Nikons. Mark William Rabiner