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Subject: [Leica] M/V Star Aquarius 90 Cron R on D700
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:22:10 -0500
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Beautiful image, Howard.  Looks like a happy marriage of camera and lens.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "H&ECummer" <cummer at netvigator.com>
To: <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 4:16 PM
Subject: [Leica] M/V Star Aquarius 90 Cron R on D700


> Hi Luggers,
> The recent typhoon blew away all the pollution and Hong Kong was in  
> brilliant sunshine on Sunday morning. We were up early with jet lag -  
> just back from Vancouver - and walked along the waterfront. Here is  
> the Star Aquarius coming into the harbour under blue skies from its  
> latest gambling cruise.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2010_001/
> 
> I have followed the many postings about the D700 started by Mark and  
> would comment that you makes your choices and you live with them.
> I chose the D700 and will have shortly rebayonted all my R lenses to  
> leitax N mounts. Leica glass is in almost all cases the best one can  
> get - but since DMR backs are a dying breed - to keep using R glass  
> one needs to migrate the lenses to another platform. For my money, for  
> my uses, the D700 is simply the best around and I do enjoy getting out  
> and using the R lenses. For long telephoto work where quick accurate  
> focusing is required, based on my experience last year with Jayanand  
> shooting tigers in India, I have moved away from R glass because, Doug  
> is absolutely right, you need the auto diaphragm feature to enable  
> accurate wide open focusing and to maintain some depth of field.
> So, I have sold my wonderful 180 f3.4 APO and my less wonderful 400  
> Telyt and replaced them with the latest Nikkor 70 - 200 F2.8 VR and  
> the latest 2X extender.
> These will get a workout, I hope, this coming year in Africa. Before  
> that I will see how the 21 - 35 Elmar performs on the D700 and whether  
> I should take it along. A concern for me is its lack of dust proofing.
> Cheers
> Howard (back home in Honkers)
> 
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