Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, obviously the pros I know are motor racing specialists. The "standard lens" amongst these guys is usually either the 400mm f2.8 or 600mm f4 depending on the photographer. Even shooting in the garages with flash. WA lenses are used much less. IME long Canon lenses are superb. Those changing to Nikon are doing so only for AF and reliability, from what they tell me. Canon have still probably 70%. Frank On 1 Jul, 2009, at 06:28, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Nathan I think the most popular lens with pros of a range of types > are not > longs but shorts. And getting shorter every decade. > Now the lens of choice is as Henning says. > The 14-24 full frame 2.8 > Getting Canon shooters buying Nikons for yet another reason but this > one a > big one. > Before it was an 18-35. > > Just like the Graflex SLR went out because the speed Graphic could get > closer putting you in front of them so they shoot your back the > style of > photography gets closer and closer every year. > > I never dreamed I'd shoot with anything shorter than a 24. > Leica shooting got me of course shooting with a 21. > A 14 feels long now on a 1.5 crop that's 21. > I've gotten real used to 18. > Its Leica has read my mind. > Or read the LUG last year. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > >> From: Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 06:57:22 +0200 >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] To Sell or Not to Sell now Canon/Nikon >> >> Mark, I think that Canon's domination of the pro market has more to >> do >> with investment in that market and the customer support than with the >> optical quality of the lenses. Another consideration: most pros shoot >> with long or longish lenses (certainly sports photographers, >> paparazzi, and probably also many ordinary news photographers) where >> Canon is quite OK. Their wide angles are where the problems are--I >> can >> attest to that as well. >> >> Nathan > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information