Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/01

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Subject: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?
From: chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Chris Crawford)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 02:48:21 -0400

So true. Can't believe anyone would commit the blasphemy of claiming that
any of that Japanese junk could be anything but holga-crap-fuzzy soft.

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On 4/2/12 1:52 AM, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

>It cannot possibly be "sharp as a tack" since it is cheap and not a Leica.
>
>Nathan Wajsman
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>On Apr 2, 2012, at 5:35 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>
>> I also walked out of a photo store with a used 500 4.5 Nikkor not the
>>most
>> current version and dirt cheap and it is sharp as a tack. I have an OK
>> 70-300 zoom and it is not as good nor has a tripod collar. So I try to
>>use
>> the 300 if I can. Its built like a steel tank. I love the tripod collar.
>> 
>> Here's the moon at a 15th of a second during a full eclipse which it was
>> fully eclipsed. It was very dark red. Darker than it looks here.
>> I think at a 15th of a second the moon is moving but I though it was a
>> viable image.
>> 
>> 
>>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Autumndays/101221_034520.jpg.h
>>tml
>> 
>> 
>> - - from my iRabs.
>> Mark Rabiner
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/springdays/
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 18:14:51 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?
>>> 
>>> Dr. Ted Grant wrote:
>>> 
>>>> DID YOU EVER JUST WALK IN YOUR FAVOURITE CAMEARA STORE AND SAY?
>>>> 
>>>> "I need a 35mm  or 50 mm lens for my Leica M whatever and out the
>>>>door in to
>>>> assignmnet action with nary a concern other   when are you going to
>>>>pay for
>>>> this?
>>> 
>>> Yup (a Nikon 300mm f/4.5) and I got lucky.  I didn't know it at the
>>>time but
>>> the previous model, a really poor lens, had been upgraded to
>>>'adequate'.
>>> 
>>> Doug Herr
>>> Birdman of Sacramento
>>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
>>> 
>>> 
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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Buying a Leica lens?)
In reply to: Message from photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman) ([Leica] Buying a Leica lens?)