Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] P&S cameras and Canon L glass compared to Leica
From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 23:59:53 -0400
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Slobodan:

I have done boxing a few times for a local sports magazine.  My best 
success was with the 400mm from mid way up the stands.  They way they set 
up the rings here with a table you sit at between you and the ropes, you 
cannot get close enough to shoot under the ropes.

  I did do a Womens World some thing or another and used a 50mm Summicron 
and a 180mm APO Summicron from the ring side.  The 180 gave nice tight 
shots with lots of the Leica punch!  I should have brought my 400mm and 
shot from the stands.  I would have had better shots.

http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/Sports.htm

A shot from the 180mm APO Summicron is here.  The Canon lens of this size 
is about the same price and probably has equivalent performance.

http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/Sports/hackel6.jpg

Regards,

Robert



  At 07:33 PM 2/22/2002 -0800, S Dimitrov wrote:
>As of yet I don't see rates that can place a Leica in a working
>photographer's kit. While covering boxing, I saw only one 280 F2.8
>Telyt, and a rental at that. Everything else was a Canon, with a very
>sparse scattering of Nikons. I was using a Rollei, believe or not, with
>an occasional RF by you know who. Being at ringside, a 50 is considered
>a long lens.
>
>  Slobodan Dimitrov

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