Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, I, too, like a light kit when away from home.? That's why I chose to move to Fuji APS-C sensors, now with the X-T2.? My favorite all-purpose lens is a Fuji 27mm f/2.8 (40mm FF equivalent) which weighs in at 90 grams with cap.? And, I've had not a single problem with my two Fujis. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA On 1/11/2018 12:47 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > I think when you bring a Leica on a vacation or head out for a day with it it?s a Leica. It?s not a monster camera and lens kit. Leica is all about elegant compactness; minus the R system monsters. > Me I?d call a 4 pound 9 inch long lens with an 82mm filter thread a monster lens.. What the Leica 90-280mm APO-Vario-Elmarit-SL is not is a walkabout lens for a walkabout camera. It weighs twice my heaviest lens a 300mm f/4.5 AI which I can hardly lift and should come with balloons but does have a tripod foot so I could put it on a monopod or tripod even. The Vario-Elmarit does have a removable tripod foot which stops it from looking like the odd cylinder it is. 23 elements in 17 moving groups yes you know you have your camera with you. Not for a second do you ever think you?d left it at home. > Paul?s classic pancake 40mm CS Heliar 2.8 is an ultimate walkabout. A lens which can make your camera slide into a very small bag or even a coat pocket. A lens which imperceptibly adds to the total weight of a camera. A lens with the Leica M mindset going for it. For a second there you can think you left it at home. > Monster glass I use when I?m going somewhere to get a shot which has to come out and it?s in my calendar to get it. Then when I get the shot I go home and put it back in the Pelican case. Then I head out for the rest of the day with a compact ?kit? as the Brits say. I need to be able to walk in a straight line and not get a crick in my neck. I have a 35,50 or 85 on my camera all 1.8?s. > > > > > > > >