Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/18

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Subject: [Leica] OT Re: Report on my new 24-120/4 Nikon lens
From: corkflor at iol.ie (Alex Hurst)
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 10:08:14 +0100
References: <20111017165624.514254@Telyt-PC> <BLU139-DS17F253BCF36F7ECE9D01B1B8E50@phx.gbl>

Aram wrote in part:

>for those who might be interested.  You may remember that at the end 
>of August, two weeks before I was to leave on a cross country trip, 
>I dropped and broke my Leica R 35-70/4 zoom.  I looked at a few 
>lenses I could get quickly as a replacement and decided on the Nikon 
>24-120/4 over the 24-70/2.8 for range of coverage and lighter weight 
>as the main priorities I had at the time.  And Rabs said this lens 
>was on his short list.  So, here is a  report after 6 weeks of use 
>all over the country in all kinds of conditions.

FWIW, Aram, the Nikkor zoom which is permanently on my D200 is the 
24-85 AF-S 3.5-4.5 G (meaning no aperture ring). Looks like a pretty 
good equivalent of your busted 35-70, and is very compact.

Though it's a cheap lens, it's outstanding optically. A little 
distortion at the w/a end, but otherwise absolutely fine. Have a look 
at the water lily at:

  http://corkflor.smugmug.com/

which was taken at the 85mm end and is about half the frame.

Ken Rockwell is also a fan. See the review on his site.

Best of light.

Alex
-- 
Alex & Carmel Hurst
Waterfall
Near Cork
Ireland

Tel: +353 21 454 3328
Mobile: +353 87 245 7048 (A)
+353 87 988 9927 (C)

email: corkflor at iol.ie (for either of us)
email while travelling: <corkflor at gmail.com>
Carmel McCarthy <carmelmac at mynovanetworks.net> (for Carmel personally)
UK email (when there) corkflor1 at o2.co.uk
Home Pages: http://www.iol.ie/~corkflor
Photo Gallery at: http://corkflor.smugmug.com


Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] OT Re: Report on my new 24-120/4 Nikon lens)
In reply to: Message from leica_r8 at hotmail.com (Aram Langhans) ([Leica] Report on my new 24-120/4 Nikon lens)