Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alan wrote: >...it will probably be the best 35-70 in the industry, that's all, = >and maybe someone actually cares. Not me. = And not me. Instead I will continue to take a 35/2 with the 80/1,4 or the 100/2,8 when I want to travel light. But you're right, they will understand in 2006, and make it (35-90/2,8) in 2012. To say that a 35-70 is the perfect companion of a 70-180 or a 80-200 is a joke. Who will switch lenses only to use the Tele-zoom at 80 or 90mm ? What a heavy short Tele ! To be really usefull a range of Zoom should overlap. IMO the ideal range will be : 19-35/2,8 + 28-90/2,8 + 70-180/2,8 (the later of the size and = the weight of the Nikon, not of the Leica)- sorry Eric ;-) >Two lenses make the R line for me: the 100mm f2.8 APO-macro and the >180mm f2.8 APO. Maybe some exotic longer R tele makes sense to a few >specialists. For the rest, that R line is for me a source of infinite >puzzlement.... I may add to your list the 19/2,8.(I don't have it) >Okay, enough said, when are we going to buy all this ? I AM going to get= >the M6 TTL HM AND the 135mm f3.4. What are you going to purchase ? The XPAN or the new Hexar. ;-) And the 180/2,8 APO, but only if they make a Apo Axtender 1,4X for it. Lucien