Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Now that you mention it, I have never seen Pop Photo say anything bad. If it is a really bad, inexpensive camera or lens, they say something like "At a price 1/5 that of a ******, this would be an excellent choice for someone wanting to get their feet wet. JLS - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of B. D. Colen Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 7:37 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] open wide What a shock!:-) (Although pretty much everyone seems to agree that it is an excellent lens, especially for the ludicrously low price for a lens of this type.) B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Jeffery L. Smith Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 9:06 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] open wide Pop Photog just reviewed the 12mm and thought it was excellent. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of bourgeois and biblical Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 12:29 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: [Leica] open wide i ordered a voigtlander 12mm. fun, fun, fun. and, in a total aside, a friend is giving me an old mamiya 1000 DTL he found in his dad's closet. i'd like to use it as a macro camera, since i sold my canon macro lens after the kazakh incident. i always ended up using the EOS totally manually anyway, so what difference will it make? anyhow, do any of you gurus want to recommend a good 50mm or maybe 100mm macro? i think it's pentax screw mount. i've found some looking around on KEH, but can't really gauge much about quality. danke, brad - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html "America sells everything with sex and then recoils when presented with the realities of natural process." --Jock Sturges "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg All my family problems disappeared overnight. We're all takin' Zoloft, and everything is fine. My sister's teen angst just flew out the window. Momma's so happy, she laughs all the time. --Patterson Hood - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html