Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 98-08-17 11:16:57 EDT, you write: << But I'm painfully aware of how much time I already spend changing lenses. In Greece last year I sa >> Hi Doug, Thanks for your response. Yes, I have been very happy with the lens. In fact, before I bought it I took a couple rolls of Kodachrome 25 and tech pan at the dealers with the zoom, the 35,2.8; 50,2.0 and 90,2.0. The zoom looked very good and, in fact was sharper in the edges than the 35mm. I did not see any differences in color rendition or saturation using a ten power glass on the slides. That was a long time ago, now; but I still use that zoom and the 70-210 as my traveling gear. I was at the SanDiego Wild Animal Zoo last week down on the truck among the animals. Although I have a lot of bodies and lenses and could very well have carried some of them, two bodies with these two zooms produced photos with moving subjects that I could not have take any other way. Sometimes you get into situations where you cannot change your position even thought the subject does, what else can you use but a zoom? There may very well have been some problems with the lens and it does not have the same feel as the fixed focal lengths, but mine has worked perfectly for many years, as I said, and its image rendition only suffers in the more extreme conditions compared to the fixed lengths. Bob