Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Feb 27, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> >> 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. sounds like you need to sell off a bunch of stuff you don't use, and will not use, to get the things that you so desire and will use. Steve > > [Rabs] > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information