Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 8/30/04 2:11 AM, Frank Dernie at Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com wrote: > I don't know Mike. Does he cover the world championship or does he > specialise in a particular domestic or other series? I have never, in > the 30 years I have worked in the Motor Sports business, ever seen one > of the telyt lenses, in fact, on reflection, I think the only one I > have ever seen is mine! > cheers > Frank > Mike Levitt is the director of a US auto racing photo agency who posts occasionally on photo.net. Among other things, he praises Leica USA's service, the ruggedness of the equipment, the R8/R9 viewfinder which allows him to focus and compose as he sees fit (vs. as the C/N AF systems sees fit) and in his daily work he sees the results of many photogs' work using C and N and comparing their results and the results he used to get with N and C he prefers the look his modular Telyts give hime: higher contrast, greater color saturation. Mike has found that the Canon stuff is pretty good, but that the Nikon equipment falls apart after a year or less of hard use and NPS can't fix the stuff. For example for seven years he replaced his Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 annually because the lens got soft or broke and Nikon couldn't put it back together. You can see one of his posts at http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=003jp3 Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://www.wildlightphoto.com