Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Levi, >As longs as it's an R! No N stuff! Yes, I was Nikon SLR person from the first F to the F4 and most everything in between. I didn't like the feel of the AF lenses. The R8 has a lot of the feel of the F4 when used manually. However, I lost most of a trips pictures with the F4 when the ASA setting inadvertently moved and I didn't know it until after the trip and the blacker pics came back. The Leica R lenses - super!!! >The 19... You do get lost in the view but... one can juggle the transparency of the RF with the thrill of the 19 view. And indeed that slide (almost forgot!)looks like it did - precisely. Not because of experience and predictability of the lens but because of what I saw in real-time*. It's not a comment on the situation but a 19 view of it! *And the photo is essentially also that view, however irrelevant. The 100APO - is also... BIG! Keeps me($)from that 90APOASPHS! Barely. I had the 100 APO at one time and loved it. However the 80/1.4 works for me. I once shot the same pic with the 100 and the 80 and found very little difference between them (non-macro) plus two more stops. >But the M6 and 50 summicron? Why do I not seem able to take that 50 off? And both off of me? This is just unsurpassed. It's actually hard to use anything else at all. Results? What does it matter? The 50 is more of an extension that a tool. I'll get another body and just glue that 50 summicron on there. I felt that way about the M6 and 35/1.4 asph. Used it for almost everything and the 90/2.8 once in a while. I could get along with the 35 and the 75/1.4, but I see better with the 80/1.4-R >Also - the R8/R7 thing is not right. I just feel stupid with that thing on me, however good it is, and it is. I understand what you are saying - I wish that I could afford both systems. Take care, Dick Hemingway Plano, TX