Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> Jesus, Mark, you find that lens useable? > S.d. > > On Apr 1, 2010, at 8:06 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> And 149 with the compact 55-200 > > A 80 to 300 full frame lens for full frame is a bit of a monster to shoot with. I have one. But The 55-200 f4-5.6 G ED AF-S DX Nikor is that lens at a forth of the size and weight and price even. Its one of the few advantages to a cropped format you get to use some real compact gear and even pay less money. You'd think you were shooting with a half fame system. Then you find out you are. If I had the current VR anti vibration version of that lens I'd be using it ten times more. Its only a bit bigger and heavier. I obviously do find it useable as I just said so. And while typing it had the images right in front of me on my screen in Bridge. The specs of this very inexpensive lenes also speak for themselves. They are very competitive from a results angle. While heavy fast expensive glass is normally considered professional Lightweight compact slower and cheaper glass from Nikon often has as good or not better specs. Contrast and resolution. And on a number of levels I find compact glass more useable. Hence my interest in Leica. I hear when you shoot Canon you have to stick with the 2.8's the cheaper stuff does not have the specs. But shooting a nikon system we do have that option. It looks bad. People expect to see a 2.8 Yuban coffee can on your camera. But to have what looks like a 50mm normal lens on your camera but be able to get 3oomm reach is very thrilling and useful to me for the 55 months I've been using this lens which I got for 150 bucks new the week it came out. I had the sigma lens before that but it had apparitions on the white backdrop. Large eerie ghosts. In the field though you never saw them but back then I was half the time in the studio. As I go back to the 60's to me a zoom lens is an 80 - 200. This 55-200 is that lens only for DX as close as I can get to the classic 80 - 200 angles I am used to And I used it on the white backdrop with studio strobes hand holding it for shoots lasting several hours. http://www.bythom.com/55200lens.htm http://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/55200.htm Thom is farily high on it Ken I doubt uses it at all but briefly checked it out. I never had much problem with how slow it focuses. Especially shooting trees. Even blowing in the wind. [Rabs] Mark William Rabiner