Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oh there are a lot of us out here willing to talk about cameras and lenses. Like any other system a lot of this is personal taste. If you like shooting people you may make different lens choices than someone shooting landscapes. Also budget makes a big difference, and what makes up a system for you (one body, two ,more? 2 lenses, 3, 10?). Do you want new or used? Do you already have some Leica gear and are expanding or are you just getting into it? Switching from another rangefinder, SLR, or something else? I started with on M6TTL, a 35mm f1.4 ASPH and a 90mm f2 APO about three years ago. That was a pretty expensive start, but I figured I would be keeping the equipment for many years (my medium format equipment is all 1970's vintage and still in regular use) so I decided I'd rather buy once and get the fastest lens available rather than getting something used or slower and upgrading if I wasn't happy. Since then I have added other bodies and lenses. Along the way, I've also been very happy with some of the Cosina/Voigtlander lenses. I went with very wide ones like the 12, and the 15, and also went with the C/V 75mm because I just wasn't sure if there was enough of a difference between my 50 and my 90 to justify the 75mm f1.4, and at $300 a used C/V 75 was worth playing with for a while to see what I thought of the focal length. I think I've decided that there is enough difference for a 75mm to make sense, but the C/V lens is good enough that I am not in a big hurry to drop the approx. $2K that a new Leica 75 will run. One word of caution. I went with Leicas because they were light and had great lenses. Now my Leica bag weighs 23 pounds, still less than half of the weight of the M/F stuff, but not exactly the five pound system I had in mind. Good luck, and you'll probably see that the more questions you ask the more long winded we get. Oh, and I'll second the use the delete key if you don't want the off topic stuff. It's usually pretty obvious from the subjects. I managed to miss the "madness" and "Canadians/slaves, etc." entirely. DJ - --- Craig Schroeder <craig@craigschroeder.com> wrote: > I've been looking for some information for building > a basic but solid > Leica M system. I didn't see anything specific on > UseNet and I've only > really found the LUG group. Are there some > discussion groups more > specific to the issues of photography and the > application of Leica > hardware discussion and analysis? So far, this is > my only resource and > I live in the rural area of northern Wisconsin where > I don't have > reasonable access to dealers and really depend on > the net for good > information. I had a couple of responses in here > for some Leica > expertise and thank you for that. > > -- > > > Craig Schroeder > > craig@craigschroeder.com > http://craigschroeder.com > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html