Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Opinions Please
From: Tony Chang <stchang@novice.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 21:10:41 -0500

At 09:23 PM 1998/2/18 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>If you had your choice, would be buy a Leica R8 with a 50mm Summicron, a
>Hasselblad 501cm with the standard 80mm lens, or a Canon EOS 1n with a
>28-70 f2.8L? 

Hello:

I own M equipment, EOS equipment and Hassy 503cxi.  I am only a serious
amerture.  I use M equipment most of time.  I have the most fun taking
photos with it.  They are small, light weight and many people does not pay
much attention when I use a taped M equipment.

I use EOS (EOS1n, EOS5, 28-70L, 70-200L + 2x TC) for school sport football
games.  Now, the season is over and I have not touched it for AGES!

Oh boy, Hassy 503cxi.  I don't even remember when was the last time I use
it.  Anyway, Hassy 180CF and 100 Makro are super lenses.  I would use it
for extremely serious in door portraits and landscapes.  School work is
getting busy for me and I don't travel for landscape photography anymore.  

My next trip is to Canadian Rocky Mountain in May as a celebration of
graduating from univ.  Guess what equipment I will bring with me?
Definitely 2 M bodies and 3 lenses.  They fit in my waist bag Tamrac 701
with a added-on lens holder.

You should give us some more info. about what type of photography do you
do?  So we can give you better suggestions?

Regards,
Tony Chang

>
>Even with the high quality and extreme sharpness of Leica lens, does
>anyone believe that they can compare favorably with the image qualities
>produced by medium format lens such as those from Hasselblad?
>
>TIA
>-Ray
>
>