Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark, The nice thing about some of the Leica R lenses is that they are reasonably inexpensive (obviously a relative term when speaking of Leica). I paid around $900 for my 60mm macro, around $350 for my 180mm Elmarit, and the other long lens I want, the 6.8/400mm Telyt, can also be found for hundreds as opposed to thousands. The only really expensive lens in my immediate R future is the 28mm shift lens. Of course I would love to own the 100mm macro or the 180mm Summicron, but the older lenses are just fine--for examples of what the Telyt can do, see Doug Herr's bird photos at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt/ Nathan Mark Rabiner wrote: > By the way my life support system for an 35mm SLR or reason for having one would > be exactly what yours is, the logical one: macro and longer telephoto. Nikon > makes the 200 macro which consolidates that issue. Which means holding on to a > Nikon body which won't kill me. Maybe Leica will come out with one by then or a > macro 180. Also the longer than 200 Leica lenses get sky high price wise. If I > ever get into that price bracket the first thing I would get would be the new > 300 ASPH or what ever they call it for the Hasselblad for a mear $20,000. > Mark Rabiner - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium General photo site: http://members.tripod.com/belgiangator/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/