Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 7/4/99 5:37:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, mrabiner@concentric.net writes: << > << But I haven't shot with a zoom in years, I > played with one for five minutes on the road a few months back. An > indispensable tool for most, a key to mediocrity for me. > Mark Rabiner >> <> Neither can I. Perhaps you didn't realize your original statement sounded condescending, in which case I apologize for taking it that way. I am sincerely impressed with your curriculum vitae. I also owned a Vespa (a Ciao), back in college. And I also like the 75-150 Series E (in fact I have an extra one stashed away in case) but in general I'm not a zoom kind of guy either. What I have found is that sometimes the final image degrades more by cropping and enlarging in the printing (or just as bad, in duping the slide) than by using the best zoom I can find and cropping in the finder. Another thing, sometimes some really great shots have come (and gone) right when I'm changing lenses. And, there have been times outdoors when there was so much stuff blowing that I didn't dare dismount a lens, so a zoom might have been helpful. DT