[Leica] Leica SL 90-280 Lens

[chris williams]

I drive a 2001 BMW 3 series which was not bought new. 

I also have multiple 70-200's.



Chris Williams
www.zoeicaimages.net
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> On Jan 11, 2018, at 2:19 PM, Tina Manley <tmanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I drive a 1989 Toyota Land Cruiser and I buy my clothes second-hand.  I
> like Leica lenses and think they are almost worth what I pay for them,
> especially used - which is how I got this one.
> I do intend to use it.  I've been carrying it around the farm for two days
> now and my arms and shoulders are fine.  I also like fast lenses and am
> willing to put up with extra weight for extra light.
> 
> That's just me.  I am a serious pro.
> 
> Tina
> 
>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 2:07 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>> 
>> At first thought a 90-280mm sounds like an insanely hyper extended zoom no
>> pro would use but it’s just a 70-300 with the ends snipped with a cigar
>> cutter.
>> Serious shooters tend to like 80-200’s not 70-300s. But I’m ok with them.
>> I use them and am getting another one later this year.
>> What I am getting is the just out AF-P NIKKOR 70-300mm  f/4.5-5.6E ED VR
>> $746.95 as I trashed my earlier G version shooting upwards in the rain last
>> year getting some of the best shots in my life.. Just a few foggy elements
>> they refuse to clean it. Had I been shooting with a pro grade 80-200 2.8 it
>> would have been sealed and I’d still have a lens and silk long underwear.
>> The new out Nikon “E” lens weights a pound and a half to the
>> Vario-Elmarit-SL’ s 4 pounds. It will not make as sharp an image as the
>> $6000 Vario-Elmarit-SL but will have its moments as it’s got stuff like VR
>> Rated 4.5 stops improvement so you can shoot a tree in the dark hand held
>> with an less than a million iso and it’s got stuff no one has like an E
>> Electronic diaphragm and AF-P: “Stepper autofocus motor” faster and quieter
>> lens  both of which which others don’t have yet. For the price of the Leica
>> lens I can get eight of these. What I need is wool socks. Thinner ones. I
>> can get those too then can stop my lenses form clanging in my bag.
>> 
>> I think where they went wrong with this Leica lens for the SL is making it
>> a f2.8-4 which is the beginning of  making of a monster. Anybody walking
>> around with a current 80-200 2.8 AF?  You’d have  to have arms like Popeye.
>> You can settle for an f 4 or 4.5 when you’re out all day with it Some very
>> mouthwatering and tele zooms that no one is embarrassed about using are not
>> f2.8’s F 4 is the new f2.8.*   But Leica’s main focus now seems to be all
>> about non-affordability.  I you could possibly in a million years afford it
>> what good is it? It’s for people who drive Ferraris; Leica has said goodbye
>> to serious pros long ago. A serious pro could afford the body but not keep
>> up at all with the glass. And it’s all about the glass. And having a second
>> body.
>> 
>> 
>> * I could wait for more money and get the AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/4G ED VR
>> for twice the cost at $1400.
>> Probably better sealed than the AF-P NIKKOR 70-300mm  f/4.5-5.6E ED VR
>> I feel like I should be able to shoot in the rain. And always have.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photographer
>> 
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