Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Luggers, The recent typhoon blew away all the pollution and Hong Kong was in brilliant sunshine on Sunday morning. We were up early with jet lag - just back from Vancouver - and walked along the waterfront. Here is the Star Aquarius coming into the harbour under blue skies from its latest gambling cruise. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/HK2010_001/ I have followed the many postings about the D700 started by Mark and would comment that you makes your choices and you live with them. I chose the D700 and will have shortly rebayonted all my R lenses to leitax N mounts. Leica glass is in almost all cases the best one can get - but since DMR backs are a dying breed - to keep using R glass one needs to migrate the lenses to another platform. For my money, for my uses, the D700 is simply the best around and I do enjoy getting out and using the R lenses. For long telephoto work where quick accurate focusing is required, based on my experience last year with Jayanand shooting tigers in India, I have moved away from R glass because, Doug is absolutely right, you need the auto diaphragm feature to enable accurate wide open focusing and to maintain some depth of field. So, I have sold my wonderful 180 f3.4 APO and my less wonderful 400 Telyt and replaced them with the latest Nikkor 70 - 200 F2.8 VR and the latest 2X extender. These will get a workout, I hope, this coming year in Africa. Before that I will see how the 21 - 35 Elmar performs on the D700 and whether I should take it along. A concern for me is its lack of dust proofing. Cheers Howard (back home in Honkers)