[Leica] M/V Star Aquarius 90 Cron R on D700

[robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)]

And here's the HK YMCA:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Bob+Baron/HongKong2009/W_L1008405Y2.jpg.html

Marty, you had a bigger room than I did.

Howard:  Nice shot!

--Bob

==On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> And there's "my" room in the HK YMCA:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/freakscene/Randomness/File1090.jpg.html
> in the background!
>
> Marty
>
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "H&ECummer" <cummer at netvigator.com>
>> To: <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 4:16 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] M/V Star Aquarius 90 Cron R on D700
>>
>>
>>> 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)
>>>