[Leica] The unveiling

[Howard L Ritter Jr]

Congratulations on the new gear. I got an A7RII last year and am very happy with it. I think Sonny has one also. I have the 24-70 zoom, rather bulky but handy. My fervent wish is that Sony will come up with an e-mount version of the lovely Zeiss 35mm f/2 that’s built into the RX-1. That would make a nice walk-around bit of kit. If they don’t, an adapter for the 35mm ‘lux would be in order.

And for Christmas my lovely wife bestowed on me a gorgeous pair of Swarovski SLC 8 x 56 binoculars, size and magnification chosen to maximize the brightness of faint celestial objects on the darkest of nights, which I’ll be having in April when I attend the OzSky Safari at Coonabarabran not far from Sydney. I wanted this binocular specifically, but it’s not sold in the U.S., so I had to find a U.K. dealer (a hunting outfitter named “Gunrunner”) who’d obtain a pair and ship it to me. Worked beautifully.

—howard


> On Jan 20, 2017, at 1:34 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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> Daa daahhh, the unveiling - Nikon binoculars and a Sony A7ii.
> The 12x50 binoculars work very well in low light despite a reasonable price, but I'm still reading the camera manual. Have to order adapters for Leica and other lenses in the next few days, but I'll stick with the 28-70 that came with it for the moment.
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> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/camera+box.JPG.html
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> Douglas
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