Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: 747, Make it happen
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue Dec 16 18:39:40 2008
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There are a lot of Canon using pros who are now using the Nikon 14-24 with
an adapter.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Alan Magayne-Roshak <amr3@uwm.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 Tina Manley <images@comporium.net>wrote:
>
> >...Also, some Canon lenses are worse than others.  The 16-35 zoom is
> >absolutely awful.  The 24/1.4 L is pretty bad.  Wides are much worse
> than longer lenses.
> ============================================================
> Tell me about it!  I hate that 16-35, but it's the widest lens the office
> has,
> so I grit my teeth when I have to use it, even stopped down.  I miss using
> fast
> prime lenses on film where I could shoot even at f/2 and have good results.
> We still have some fast Nikkor manual lenses and a Nikkor-EOS adapter, but
> the Canon screen is so hard to use with them I can't get consistent
> focus.(except for my
> 35mm f/3.5 PC Nikkor, which seems to snap into focus easier, and is very
> sharp).
>
> Alan
>
> Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer
> UPAA POY 1978
> University Information Technology Services
> University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/
>
>
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] IMG: 747, Make it happen)
Reply from photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Philip Forrest) ([Leica] Focusing screens)
In reply to: Message from amr3 at uwm.edu (Alan Magayne-Roshak) ([Leica] IMG: 747, Make it happen)