Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mike Johnston, >>A perfectly usable f4 is almost as good IMO as<< >>an f2.8 zoom that doesn't come up to snuff until f4<< Try f5.6 on a 80-200 f2.8 zoom ( competitor ;-) that I recently tried out for a day. Unreal, the amount of light fall-off at f2.8 & f4! One of the many virtues of Leica lenses ; ( most of them anyway ;-) are their highly usable apertures when wide open. And, their build quality...a whole "nother" topic. Tom D.