Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark: Have you ever used the APO-Macro 2.8/100 R lens? I switched from Nikon because of that lens and the 60mm. I don't give a Philadelphia Flying F*** for Canon or Nikon VR/AF and their little motors in my macro shooting, It's the GLASS! Wash out your mouth! :) - -- Jim - http://www.hemenway.com Mark Rabiner wrote: > > Eric Welch wrote: > > > > on 07/11/03 6:42 AM, Mark Rabiner at mark@rabinergroup.com wrote: > > > > > Then Canon got anti shake > > > then Nikon stopped shaking too. > > > > > > Canon had come out with excellent shift lenses. > > > Nikon's are pretty good. I know a guy who shoots Nikon but had a Canon > > > body with a shift lens on it. > > > > But Mark, Canon's macro, IS and shift lenses are often better and more > > comprehensive than Nikon's lenses. Their VR and internal focus motors pale > > in comparison to the number of lenses Canon has put the technology in. Nikon > > has been playing catch-up for way too long. The F5 being the sole exception. > > > > Eric Welch > > Carlsbad, CA > > http://www.jphotog.com > > I've never heard Canons macro system being better than Nikon! I never > head of Canon's macro reputation at all! I do hear everywhere the > awesome reputation of the Nikon 60, 105 and 200 as well as there 85 > shift macro and the innovative 70-180mm f/4.5-5/6D AF ED Micro Zoom > Nikkor. And I'm not on the Nikon list I'm talking about my collective > hippocampus? (woof) Are the Canon VR lenses a little better than Nikon? > Nikon's came out THIS YEAR. I think they'll keep working on it. Sure > Canon undoubtedly has a key patent but Nikon always finds a way. > It was also only in the last 12 months than Nikon started having the > internal focussing silent wave leones not be only on select high price > pro lenses but on consumer based lenses as well. In other words all of > them. These are often the G lenses without the aperture ring. A good > reason to move to Canon! (no aperture rings from day one) Dragging on > the higher technologies reminds us of who? if you don't have upside down > typeface your's will be right side up: (ROLLEI) (LEICA)! > Nikon come into AF a year late and with the motors not in the lenses. > Although Nikon seems to be always playing a game of catch up with Canon > it does do it and with pickles and mustard to spare. > And occasionally Nikon actually thinks of something BEFORE Canon or > anybody does. > > My friend last week was shooting real estate for a group that was paying > by the house. All week. He stared out with the 28 shift lens but they > didn't need it. It could all be fixed in Photoshop if needed anyway (I'm > quite good at doing that by the way). > So he shot the rest of the week with the ubiquitous 17-35mm f/2.8D ED-IF > AF-S Zoom-Nikkor. > Architectural work with a zoom not that's something But then again it's > being done in 35mm format so who knows? > > I'm not overly thrilled the 60mm f/2.8D AF Micro-Nikkor I got last week > not being AF-S ED-IF. And how quaint of them to leave the aperture ring > on! I guess i can use this on my FM or FE-2 then. Cameras made twenty to > twenty fives years ago. It sounds like there is a little plastic robot > in there but ten years ago they sounded like metal munching plastic > robots whose batteries were about to go. > > "The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy. But these are > new. They look human. Sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. > I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him." Terminator 1 > > During the reign of the Nikon F4 Canon became perceived as > innovationally ahead of Nikon with it's white lenses and it's ads on TV > in which high profile types of photographers (news, sports) seen with > those white lenses. Nikon's image languished along with its slow > motorless lenes. > But you could rent "blow up" and watch the guy with his black painted > Nikons become the Bach, Shakespeare and/or Michael Jordan of modern > (1969) cool. > It proved remarkably easy to overcome Nikons collected reputation as the > top SLR. > The Die hard Nikon people didn't die very hard. The just rolled over, > coughed and spit out some Canon parts. > > They herded together and flung themselves off a nice soft cliff. As my > pappy used to tell me it's not the fall the kills you. > But using a Canon F1 in the 80's was like driving a Saab. You kind of > had to wear a different color scheme then the Add people and Oh maybe > use a cigarette holder or other uncelebrated accoutrements. Various > erratic hats and slogans which were impossible to "get".. > You have an image of one that does not follow the crowd. But lives under > the sidewalk. > > I got that feeling now shooting both Leicas and Nikons. Like I've blazed > my own trial. > Which is where they got the name "trailblazers" from i guess. > Except isn't basketball team all about teamwork? I guess the name is appropriate. > I'd think a Golfer could blaze their own trial. No forget that one. How > silly of me. You have to stay on the COURSE. > Or you find yourself in the ROUGH to the JUNGLE. From the FRINGE to the FROGHAIR. > > Not so with shooting digital. > > Mark Rabiner > Portland, Oregon USA > http://www.rabinergroup.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html