Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/14
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>After using my Leica 180mm f/2.8 APO telephoto lens with landscape
>photography, I'm finding a desire to go deeper into the scenery after
>viewing many of my slides. There are landscape scenes that I see that
>are within the 180's FoV that would make great shots of their own. I
>could use double the FL of the 180 to pull in some of those scenes.
>Leica offers a 280mm APO telephoto, but that lens falls short of
>doubling the 180's FL. They no longer offer a telephoto in the mid 300mm
>range which would be perfect jump from a 180mm lens. The next telephoto
>from Leica is a big jump to the the 400mm FL level, and costs $8K, more
>than I will spend on a lens, also. Is it logical to buy another
>telephoto lens, the Leica 280mm APO Telyt, offering only 60% more FL
>than their 180mm lens?
>
>Peter Natscher
>Monterey, California USA
The apo 2x converter should do it ;-)
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Alastair Firkin
http://www.afirkin.com
http://www.familyofman2.com
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