Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/23

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Subject: [Leica] D700
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:30:25 +0530
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Marty,
Do you mean the one launched a short while ago that has just hit the market?
24-120 f4? In the Nikon lists it is getting good reviews.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> The new 24-120 is just as bad as the first one.  I don't know if it's
> been redesigned optically, but it is cosmetically different and has
> AF-S and VR.  When I tested a Nikon D700 that was the lens that Nikon
> sent with the camera.  I thought something was wrong with the camera
> until I tried it with some better glass.
>
> I agree on VR; it's great.  It's just a shame that subject movement
> makes it less useful for what I do, but a camera with built-in
> anti-shake and good f1.4 lenses would be nice.
>
> Marty
>
> On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> wrote:
> > >From what I know the 24-120 established a bad rep from day one but was
> > completely redone a few years later then completely redone again then a
> few
> > years later completely redone again with VR. It could be ok by now though
> I
> > like zooms which vear on the conservative side. But the 24-120 has VR.
> > And VR is a not to be an underestimated game changer.
> >
> > Voucher Recharge
> > Verification Requirement
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Mark William Rabiner
> > Photography
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> > mark at rabinergroup.com
> > Cars:   http://tinyurl.com/2f7ptxb
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>
> >> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:19:10 +1030
> >> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] D700
> >>
> >> I don't like zooms.  The 24-70 2.8 AF-S is decent.  The 24-120 is the
> >> worst; the real dog of the Nikkor range.
> >>
> >> Just about any wide range zoom is hopeless for architectural work.
> >>
> >> Marty
> >
> >
> >
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] D700)
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