[Leica] First Pix with my "new" used Nikkor 300mm f4.5 AIS IF

[cummer at netvigator.com (H&ECummer)]

Hi Frank,
Thanks for the comments and questions. My ruminations are below (*)
> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:21:31 -0800
> From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] First Pix with my "new" used Nikkor 300mm f4.5
>       AIS IF
> To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org>
>
> Nice shots..... However, if you are going to use a MF lens, wide  
> open, I
> would wonder what the 280 or 400 Telyt would feel like on the D 700  
> body?
> The Visoflex version would allow you to use the Viso to Nikon  
> adapter.....

* I'll have a partial answer to this question in a few weeks when I  
get back my
new (to me) used Telyt 400 f6.8 with a leitax bayonet installed. It  
will be a
different focusing experience - push pull trombone focusing - compared  
to the
turning of the Nikkor - and I'll have to try it to see which I prefer.  
Jury is out.

> You would lose .....
> AF ( but the AIS lens has no AF)
> Auto Aperture ( but you are shooting wide open anyway)
>
> How do the lenses compare, optically and image quality?  300/4.5  ED  
> IF AIS
> Nikkor  to the 280 Telyt ?

*I have no first hand experience but I suspect the 280 Telyt would be  
the standard against which to
measure the other lens. Doug Herr has commented on this earlier.

> Maybe the caveat should be.. on a D700?

*It certainly is my preferred platform - since a DMR is out of reach.
More later
Cheers
Howard

>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i at earthlink.net