Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm a happy 45/2.8P user as well :-) Boy, sorting out this Leica tele thing is hard :-) Scott Mark Rabiner wrote: >On 10/20/04 9:57 PM, "Scott McLoughlin" <scott@adrenaline.com> typed: > > > >>Yes, a thin Tele-Elmarit seems to be well liked for its >>size and weight (and optical performance). Are these readily >>available in mint- or so condition? I don't mind buying >>used stuff, but I also try to avoid purchase and gear hassles >>like the plague :-) >> >>Scott >> >>Luis Ripoll (Of) wrote: >> >> >> >Consistently Not that well liked here on the lug if you check the archives. >Some like it. I think more don't. >I don't. >Mine was a disaster. I went into deep Leica denial. >I assumed you knew this or you would have mentioned it before as you were >talking light weight. > >The Cosina teles are there most contested of their lenses here on the LUG. >Me I'd just bring along a Nikon body with an 85 on it or a 105 or a zoom >than use a Cosina tele. > >I do use a Cosina lens on my Nikon. The 45mm pancake. >With the d100 it's a 67.5. >Sweet! > >A lens cap which takes pictures! > >I think Cosina is probably well capable of leaving Nikon in the dust in the >glass department but no so with the teles perhaps. > > >By the way did I tell you guys I just got a 55-200 DC lens for my Nikon >D100. >A sigma. >My first third party lens. >It has such a nice finish that it makes the camera look crummy. >This could be viewed as a disadvantage. >Its build is light but it's price is weightless. >So you don't set your expectations sky high yet it might meet those anyway. >And if you smash it it's not the end of the world it's the price of a Leica >lens cap. >And Nikon doesn't make a short zoom tele for digital. They all go from wide >to tele. >No way I'm bring a wide lens with its short lens shade on my backdrop. > >Mark Rabiner >Photography >Portland Oregon >http://rabinergroup.com/ > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >