Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dave, Not certain whether you mean the 'newish' Modular system, or........something older and more beautiful: I am still waiting for the right weather (raining here a fair bit) and right subject matter.....I picked up a pre-modular 280 f2.8 late last week. Will be glad to share my impressions with the LUG as soon as I can process and print some images. I can tell you however, that the lens is fairly heavy (2.75kgs) but superbly balanced and easy to hold. It focuses like a dream, and for anyone wanting to take handheld images it seems remarkably stable/shudderless (with the greatest respect to Canon IS technology -- you won't need it here -- with this lens just use a suitably fast shutter). I am looking at using the lens for wildlife (possibly with the 1.4x extender, but won't limit myself -- I think you could choose a great deal of subject matter with this objective, and create fantastic images! - ----- Original Message ----- From: David Strang <dstrang@up.net> To: Leica Users Group <leica-users-digest@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Sunday, 11 April 1999 12:54 Subject: [Leica] Fw: Leica 280mm f2.8 > Lets try this again... > > Hello: > > Does anyone in this group use the 280mm f2.8 lens? > > Any opinions would be very helpful. > > Thanks, > Dave > dstrang@up.net > > ----Pentium Pro/Windows NT 4-SP3/Zip100/Zip250/Jaz2GB/Astra 600S scanner/RedHat > Linux 5.0/MSVC++ 5.0/MSVC++ 6.0/PowerStation Fortran 4.0/Photoshop > 4.01/Photoshop 5.0/Illustrator 7.01/KPT 3.0/KPT 5.0/PhotoTools 3.0/Portfolio > 4.0/Total XAOS/Matlab 5.0/Maple V/Office 97 Pro+SR2/MacOpener 4.0/AMIGA > 1000/AMIGA 2000-GVP030 Combo/AMIGA 3000(2)/Indigo 2 XZ/IRIX 5.3/IRIX 6.2/ and > member of UP.NET! > > > >