Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not to send wind to the fire and start flames..I have extensive experience with Canon's 100mm 1:1 macro lens. I know it isn't what you are looking for at this moment but if you do macro as you say, it would be worth going with a new Canon system as you'd have the ability to add that lens to your arsenel down the road. I have no Nikon or Leica slr experience. But Canon makes one hell of a macro lens. Reason enough to go with that system in my opinion. Lea www.whinydogpress.com (where you can see a whole bunch of images taken macro) "Barney Quinn, Jr." wrote: > Usually I just lurk, but I find myself in a situation where I want ( I hesitate > to say need :-) )to get a different SLR. Last year, as a creative journey I > wanted to take, I traded my EOS 1n for an all but unused F1. The journey lead me > back to my M6, but I'll save the details for another post should anyone be > interested. > > I have things narrowed down to an R8, an F3 which comes with some great > glassware, or a new EOS body with a 28 to 70 f2.8 L lens. I need an SLR because > I do a lot of close ups of flowers. (I've heard, by the way, that the Leica 60mm > macro is a hell of a lens.) Metering is a key issue for me. I believe that > photography is really paining and writing with light, and I do a lot of work in > tough lighting situations. A great deal of my stuff is back lit. > > What am I getting into if I get the R8 and the 28 to 80 mm zoom. One of the best > cameras in the world? Or a piece of overpriced jewelry not made in Germany by a > company who can do nothing right and who is on the verge of going out of > business equipped with a with a Sigma lens that only someone with more money > than brains would buy all of which will brand me as an idiot who can't manage > his money when he is seen in public with it? > > Barney > > Pascal wrote: > > > On 01-05-2001 01:58, tm wrote: > > > > >These findings are intolerable! These two lenses cost me approximately > > >$5,000 and Leica dared send them out with these anomalies????? Does anybody > > >else herein have horror stories about sickening findings in recent Leica > > >product purchases they would like to vent? > > > > Right Terry, this is not excusable but there is hardly anything we as a > > LUG can do about it. > > > > If what you paid $$$ for does not offer you 100% satisfaction, return it > > to Leica for servicing or exchange. That's what I have had to do for > > several items as well. Leica is quite receptive and willing to adjust > > what went wrong. > > > > Pascal > > NO ARCHIVE > > > > --------- > > Visit my Leica photo pages at http://members.nbci.com/cyberplace > > --------- > > <<< PGP public key available upon request >>>