Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice shot. I've seen its equivalent a number of times before, but still: nice. Herb >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/thisyear/120711_163958.jpg.html >or >http://tinyurl.com/coanl25 > >7/11/12, 4:39:58 PM, Soho facade, 80.0-200.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 Nikkor > >This is a real lightweight zoom about Nikons lightest. >To an old timer such as myself when I think zoom I think 80-200mm. The >others are upstarts not to be trusted. >This is a compact light one they made a few decades ago then stopped. >It got too easy and non competitive for them to do this. They had to move on >to the 70-300's which were dumb and heavy and I got one and rarely feel like >walking around with it. It's an ED. > > This 80.0-200.0 mm f/4.5-5.6 Nikkor could focus a bit closer for my taste. >But's 332.85 grams, 11.7 oz's, .7 of a pound. 3 oz's lighter than my 80mm >1.8 Nikkor D AF. >I got it around 2004 for less than a hundred bucks used from Pro Photo in >Portland Oregon. > >This shot I'm please by the way it all came together. And it appears to be >sharper than heck. (Sorry Erwin!) > >Fire escapes in Soho are for sure a clich?. But I think if you do a real >good job you're off the hook a bit. > > > >- - from my iRabs. >Mark Rabiner >http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Herbert Kanner kanner at acm.org 650-326-8204 Question authority and the authorities will question you.