Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> > Mark, I finally have to ask.... > > with all of your expertise, taste, experience, strong opinions, and great > lenses... > why are you using cheap Nikon glass on a cheap cropped Nikon body? > > > Steve Because I have nether seven grand for an m9 nor $2,399.95 for a D700 at this point. I've been acquiring nikon glass since 1973. You think all of it is cheap? Most of it is mid range classics and some of it is higher end. I do like to use amazingly inexpensive glass in front of my Nikons sometimes like the 99 dollar 50mm 1.8 I shot wide open with for a few hundred exposures shooting a choir a few weeks ago in a dark church. It had an effective focal length of 75 and just seemed ideal. But I also like to use my not so cheap 28mm 1.4 or 14mm 2.8. Mainly I use mid range stuff. I just don't like the 2.8 Yuban coffee can zooms. Plenty of people on this list would sell their glass to get the body. Which to me is like selling off your legs so you can get the money to enter the marathon. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner