Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/25

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Subject: [Leica] M/V Star Aquarius 90 Cron R on D700
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 10:46:58 +1030
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And there's "my" room in the HK YMCA:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Randomness/File1090.jpg.html
in the background!

Marty


On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> 
wrote:
> Beautiful image, Howard. ?Looks like a happy marriage of camera and lens.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- 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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