Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- ---------- >From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Leica Users digest) >To: leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Leica Users digest V11 #31 >Date: Wed, Sep 1, 1999, 1:28 PM > > << The only other Nikkor/Leica comparison that I've done is > with the 50mm f2 M lens on an M6 to a Nikkor 28-70mm zoom set at 50mm on an > F100. Same film, same shot, same developing. The Leica blew the Nikon > away... >> > > Are you referring to the new new 28-70 f2.8 AF-S Nikkor or the 28-70 f3.5-4.5? > The latter is what I call a "party lens": great for flash pics of kid's > birthday parties @ f8/11 but precious little else. It's about 1/4 the cost > of the Leica 28-70 3.5-4.5(made by Sigma, now Kyocera) which I have yet to > hear anyone rave about, even though the last issue of Leica Fotografie has a > spread from China which was taken with the 28-70 and the 70-180 APO. I have > to wonder why anyone would pair those 2 lenses. I'm referring to the newer new 28-70 f2.8 AF-S Nikkor. It's my husband's lens and he and I shot shot the same subject (some shacks in the Florida Everglades at the water's edge) to compare the F100 and the M6 with 50mm lenses. He used that Nikkor lens because it had a 50mm setting and I guess it was on his camera.