Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are so many photographer categories and of course many of them have teles as a default. Most my work of people for promo, portrait or fashion were of course done with a short tele. But even in the past years fashion photography if you google image it they get closer and closer with shorter glass. Maybe its because the mouthwash and deodorants are getting better. Mark William Rabiner My most used lens if not a short tele was always an 80-200 zoom. Me and everybody else. And nobody thought there'd ever be a wide zoom. > From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:46:45 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] To Sell or Not to Sell now Canon/Nikon > > 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: