Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, I am just curious about the Canon L series lens. What is special about the L lenses? Why are they generally so expensive compared with regular Canon lenses? Regards, David At 10:49 PM 11/06/98 -0800, you wrote: >Doug Herr wrote: >> >> Outdoor Photographer's November 1996 issue featured the work of the >> Japanese wildlife photographer Mitsuaki Iwago. This particular article has >> several of his photographs of african lions which IMHO are worth looking up >> the magazine. > >I saw that article and the reproduction (on my copy at least) was so >terrible you would never buy a Leica based on the pix. I hope someone >else had a better copy. Another issue of the magazine had a cover photo >I really liked, but reproduction also bad, yet blurb said shot with a >Leica 180. So I looked the photographer up in the ASMP membership list >and called him. He said "thanks for calling, I've been just sick about >the cover. I send them a marginal quality dupe and told them if they >wanted to use it to let me know and I'll send the original. Well, I >finally called and they said don't worry we used the one you sent and it >looks fine." He says he uses long glass Canon for the autofocus, but >never shoots backlight with it, only with L. > >All this made me wonder if they were intentionally messing up the >reproduction. No, they wouldn't do that, would they? I did sometime >later see a book by Iwago and it didn't look much better--not an >advertisement for Leica. > >donal >-- >Donal Philby >San Diego >www.donalphilby.com > >