Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Feli, Then you are depriving yourself of great lenses like the 100mm Apo Macro, which in my view is reason enough to get into Leica SLR. So the 35-50mm 2.8 is too expensive, big deal--I have the 4/35-70mm which is also excellent, costs much less, and thanks to the bright viewfinder of the R8 does not feel too slow. Nathan Feliciano di Giorgio wrote: > Let's put it like this. One of the biggest reasons why I don't own a > Leica > SLR is that this lens (35-70) costs $6000. That is if you can find one. > I'm sure it is one heck of apiece of glass, but at 5 times the price of > the equivilant Nikon, which isn't exactly a piece of junk, it's just > plain silly. > > feli - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html