Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/02/27

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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss Wide Angle 35mm f/2 Biogon T* ZM
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:02:15 -0800
References: <C7AF1478.5E512%mark@rabinergroup.com>

On Feb 27, 2010, at 3:27 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

>> 
>> Mark,  I finally have to ask....
>> 
>> with all of your expertise, taste, experience, strong opinions, and great
>> lenses...  
>> why are you using cheap Nikon glass on a cheap cropped Nikon body?
>> 
>> 
>> Steve
> 
> 
> Because I have nether seven grand for an m9 nor $2,399.95 for a D700 at 
> this
> point. I've been acquiring nikon glass since 1973.
> You think all of it is cheap?
> Most of it is mid range classics and some of it is higher end.
> 
> I do like to use amazingly inexpensive glass in front of my Nikons 
> sometimes
> like the 99 dollar 50mm 1.8 I shot wide open with for a few hundred
> exposures shooting a choir a few weeks ago in a dark church. It had an
> effective focal length of 75 and just seemed ideal.
> But I also like to use my not so cheap 28mm 1.4 or 14mm 2.8.
> Mainly I use mid range stuff.
> I just don't like the 2.8  Yuban coffee can zooms.
> 
> Plenty of people on this list would sell their glass to get the body.
> Which to me is like selling off your legs so you can get the money to enter
> the marathon.


sounds like you need to sell off a bunch of stuff you don't use, and will 
not use, to get the things that you so desire and will use.


Steve


> 
> [Rabs]
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
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