Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Karen Nakamura offered: RE: Wide zooms >>> Contemporary primes will always outclass contemporary zooms. <<< Hello Karen, Sorry ma'am the Leica R 70-180 2.8 zoom when set at 100mm is equal to the prime Leica R 100mm 2.8 macro! And probably when set at any mm is better than or equal to the best other R lenses within the 70-180 range. At one time what you posted was quite true, however in Leica's case, their "Leica made" zooms of late are master piece lenses and amazingly the best cutting glass around equal to primes. I realize there'll be some doom sayers disputing my comments, pay them no heed as they've probably never owned and used the 70-180 and the 100 mm macro at the same time on the same shoot. Trust me in a few situations our 70-180 set at 100mm and transp film comparing the slides back to back on a 4' X 8' light table, it was extremely difficult to decide which slide was which prime to zoom simply because thy both were amazingly sharp and produced beautiful colour slides. So it "ain't like it was in the olden days" prime verses zooms. :-) However, I must add that we're referring to only Leica lenses and not all other lens manufactures. ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html