Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As expensive as the Nikkor 85/1.4 is when compared to the 1.8, it's just a "legendary" lens with unsurpassed bokeh. Is it three times better (at three times the price)? Probably not. While weight is certainly a factor for my wanting to move into Leica M photography, I'd like to think that shooting with a Leica is a generally more personal experience than using the large SLRs. I'd like to get more involved in the image as well as the making of it and I think that Leica M's offer that possibility. For the street, the candid portrait, the thoughtful photograph, I think it's the tool I want. While no expert, I have used view cameras in the past and really enjoyed shooting with an RB-67 and I'd like to get back to that feeling of using a camera instead of the computer a modern SLR is (though I do appreciate them!) I will most certainly keep and use my Nikon system. Having shot F2's, F3's, F4's, and an FM2 I am a certified Nikon fanatic. The Leica will be a valuable addition to my toolbox and my vision. Thank you for the kind words re my photography! Wendy On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >