Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/26

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Subject: [Leica] M/V Star Aquarius 90 Cron R on D700
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:00:42 +1030
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At one stage I was going so often I had the same suite each time.

Marty

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> And here's the HK YMCA:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/HongKong2009/W_L1008405Y2.jpg.html
>
> Marty, you had a bigger room than I did.
>
> Howard: ?Nice shot!
>
> --Bob
>
> ==On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> And there's "my" room in the HK YMCA:
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Randomness/File1090.jpg.html
>> in the background!
>>
>> Marty
>>
>>
>>> ----- 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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