Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Tue, 22 August 2000, "Bergman, Mark A." wrote: > > I'm in Bob's shoes. I shoot with Nikon and the M series. I have used both > Nikon and rangefinders for decades. The SLR is for all those obvious > pictures you can't do or do easily with an M body. However last year I > upgraded from the venerable F3 to the F100. After trying for a year I can > say without a doubt that (for me) AF sucks. Also the Nikon glass is good > but not the same as my leica. My reason for staying with Nikon has been cost > of the R Vs Nikon. Now I am starting to think about dumping the Nikon > system and going with the R6. I like the F3, don't care that much for the > R8. Lenses I am looking at would be 16mm fisheye, 19 (or other superwide)85 > F1.4 and something around 200mm. Open for comments, especially on the R6. > Mark, The R6 is a decent camera. The R6.2 goes a little better with a faster maximum shutter speed (1/2000) and a quieter shutter. I don't recall whether the R6 has a mirror pre-release but the R6.2 does. The battery powers the meter and self-timer. It has TTL flash capability. Lenses around 200mm would be a 180 in the Leica-R line. The choices including discontinued lenses are: f/4.0 Elmar: light and compact f/3.4 APO-Telyt: the image quality standard from the 1970s, but has been eclipsed by newer Leica APO lenses. It doesn't focus very close. old f/2.8 Elmarit: Big and hefty. late f/2.8 Elmarit: much lighter and more compact than the old version. current f/2.8 APO-Elmarit: combines the best of the late f/2.8 Elmarit and f/3.4 APO-Telyt, and adds internal focus. Outstanding optical performance, but can't use 1.4 extender. f/2.0 APO-Summicron: big, fast, Leica APO image quality. See Erwin's reviews for the APO-Elmarit and APO-Summicron lenses. Doug Herr Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt - -------------------------------------------------- Visit the Northwestern Alumni Association portal page at http://www.nualumni.com to get free web-based e-mail and many other exciting features.