Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well I like my R8 and consider it to be a great camera. I get reasonable support from Leica UK although they did misplace the case of my 280 f2.8 when it went in for service and ROM fitting. It was found later. I do not like autofocus and rarely use it. I must say the best pros covering the World Championship, whilst they all use Canon EOS cameras, almost always use prime lenses and manual focus and many are still using film. cheers Frank On 30 Aug, 2004, at 12:47, Doug Herr wrote: > on 8/30/04 2:11 AM, Frank Dernie at Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com wrote: > >> I don't know Mike. Does he cover the world championship or does he >> specialise in a particular domestic or other series? I have never, in >> the 30 years I have worked in the Motor Sports business, ever seen one >> of the telyt lenses, in fact, on reflection, I think the only one I >> have ever seen is mine! >> cheers >> Frank >> > > Mike Levitt is the director of a US auto racing photo agency who posts > occasionally on photo.net. Among other things, he praises Leica USA's > service, the ruggedness of the equipment, the R8/R9 viewfinder which > allows > him to focus and compose as he sees fit (vs. as the C/N AF systems > sees fit) > and in his daily work he sees the results of many photogs' work using > C and > N and comparing their results and the results he used to get with N > and C he > prefers the look his modular Telyts give hime: higher contrast, greater > color saturation. > > Mike has found that the Canon stuff is pretty good, but that the Nikon > equipment falls apart after a year or less of hard use and NPS can't > fix the > stuff. For example for seven years he replaced his Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 > annually because the lens got soft or broke and Nikon couldn't put it > back > together. You can see one of his posts at > http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=003jp3 > > Doug Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >