Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/06

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Subject: [Leica] Am I being stupid? (R content)
From: tgray at 125px.com (Tim Gray)
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:32:08 -0400
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On Nov 06, 2010 at 08:39 AM +0530, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> I still own a R6.2 still with a couple of lenses. If I were buying a film
> body today I would pick up a Nikon F100 with a 24mmf1.4, 50mm f1.4 and a
> 85mm f1.4 and 180mm f2.8 Nikkor lenses, but also a Leica R 100mm macro and
> get a replacement mount from Leitax. I have both the bodies, but in the end
> it is a personal thing - if I shoot film at all nowadays, an admittedly 
> rare
> occurrence, the F100 is the body I reach for - I personally think it is
> almost the perfect body made.

It's a thought, but I'm kind of thinking of manual focus bodies.  I know you 
can use older manual lenses on Nikons, but as many have found, a body 
actually setup for manual focusing is different thing when compared to 
manual focusing on an AF body.

I will look into older MF Nikons though and see if there's anything that 
catches my interest.


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