Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:56 PM 4/19/98 -0700, you wrote: > I thought I'd never see the day when a 15mm and a 180 f2.8 would become >part of someone's lightweight kit. Do you own a mule too? I appreciate >the need to be prepared, but that seems like a lot of weight - the trick >must be in the packing! ;) > >James > There are M photographers and R photographers and mixed. There are street photographers and landscape photographers and mixed. To some an M2 + 35/2 is a lightweight kit. To some an R8 and 400/2.8 is a lightweight kit. Everything is relative. Relative as to what kind of photography one usually does, and relative to what equipment one normally takes along on an escapade. Had I said 19mm and 135mm as the short and long, would you have the same reaction? What I am going to take to Europe will cover all of the things I want to photograph, in the manner that I want to photograph them. If you haven't experienced a 15/3.5 Super Elmar, you wouldn't understand. M people slobber over the Noctilux. To R people, the 15mm Super Elmar is like manna from heaven. Experience is the best teacher. I may replace the 100 APO and 180/2.8 with my 70-180. Two for one. So then it would be four lenses. 15, 28, 50, 70-180. Is that better? Jim