Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Mark- > > The lens I use the most is the Nikkor 24-70/2.8 ED- very useful. I have > the > 14-24/2.8 ED which is a really nice wide-angle but it doesn't get the use I > thought it would when I bought it. I have the 70-200/2.8 ED which I bought > for photographing the Afghan sport of buzkashi. The season, such as it is, > starts soon so that lens has not been used much. I suppose my favorite > lens > is the 85/1.4- it makes beautiful images when shot wide open. > > Wendy > I'm doing ok this month the the 85 1.8 at half the weight and cost and size and the f stop difference between 1.8 and 1.4 is what I left my slide rule back at the installation. An eight of a stop or a quarter? Yuban coffee cans are most those zoom 2.8's by Nikon or Canon Leica SLR zooms are to my liking far more conservative in their f stops and the kind of filter that you'd need to put on it is usually less than 82 or 77. Not dinner plate sized by desert. an M lens is a thimble by comparison. But doesn't zoom. If I were you at this point and you were asking me my advice I'd say before you got into Leica I'd try out an 18-35mm f/3.5-4.5D IF-ED not the fast monster but the slow one. Not the 17-35 2.8. I like the slow Compact ones. If I want speed I got to a fixed lens. People complain about the size of their SLR system so they want to go to Leica M but they're often not going with the smallest options of glass either. To be fair to Canon and Nikon they do make non monster fixed focal length glass. I checked out your pix on the internet WOW very impressive. Mark Rabiner > On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> > wrote: > >> If I had one Leica lens I'd have it be a 35mm. I'd like the 1.4 aspheric >> slightly more than the f2 aspheric. But not much. >> A 50 is really not a normal lens in 35mm photography. Its like walking >> around with a short tele. Very formalistic. HCB. Who needs it? >> >> I too will be progressing from a Nikon D700 to a Leica M9 both bought at >> B&H. Which is your favorite lens now? >> >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information Mark William Rabiner