[Leica] Leica SL 90-280 Lens

[Mark Rabiner]

Get a Leica Summicron-SL 35 mm f/2 ASPH. Which is coming out when the birdies start tweeting in the spring. 
It not a monster.
F 2 and be there!




 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 1/11/18, 2:19 PM, "LUG on behalf of Tina Manley" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of 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.
    >
    >
    >
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    >
    > Mark William Rabiner
    > Photographer
    >
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