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Subject: [Leica] 3.5 cm. Elmar
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:37:27 +0530
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Vince,
I am down to 3 Nikon zooms for most of my photography - 17-55 f2.8DX,
70-200f2.8 and the 200-400 f4, with the 1.4x and 1.7x teleconverters. I also
have the 50mmf1.4, 85mmf1.8 and 180mmf2.8 which I use as a travel kit, and
my son (who also shoots Nikon) basically uses the 24mmf2.8, 35mmf2, 18-70
kit lens and my old 80-400 zoom. Between us I would say we have the Nikon
primes pretty much covered as well! I have the two MF lenses I mentioned
before and the Leica R 100mm APO converted to Nikon mount. There is really
too much equipment even after getting rid of a cupboard full of stuff. If I
get the full frame D700 or equivalent, I suppose I will have to get the new
16-35 to go with it and replace my 17-55 which is a DX lens, and maybe
upgrade some of the primes. I also converted my old D70 to IR, but have not
given it a workout as yet. 40 years of lethargy in selling camera equipment
really comes home to roost - better to keep selling as you buy!
Cheers
Jayanand


On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Vince Passaro <passaro.vince at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Jayanand,
> That's an amazing list.
> If you get the D700 (and I can only cheer you on since I love that camera
> and hope to buy one or whatever its next generation may be and have
> researched it a great deal and can say, from my researches at least, you
> cannot get a better full frame camera for that money) then I'd consider
> holding on to a few other pieces of your Nikon glass. MF on these cameras
> is
> extremely easy and even working without meter is extremely easy since your
> experienced guess will be close and you get immediate info on how to fine
> tune it.  Of your Nikon glass, if you have these, I advise keeping: any of
> the 20mm lenses, the 24/2.8, the 28/2.0, the 28/2.8 if it's the AIs
> focusing
> to .2 m (which is the one I have; I've heard that the other is not so
> good).
> The newer 35 AFS and 85 AFS beat out their brilliant MF counterparts but
> none of those other primes do.
>
> That's my opinion anyway.
>
> Vince
>
>


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