Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Frank, Thanks for the comments and questions. My ruminations are below (*) > Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:21:31 -0800 > From: "Frank Filippone" <red735i at earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [Leica] First Pix with my "new" used Nikkor 300mm f4.5 > AIS IF > To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug at leica-users.org> > > Nice shots..... However, if you are going to use a MF lens, wide > open, I > would wonder what the 280 or 400 Telyt would feel like on the D 700 > body? > The Visoflex version would allow you to use the Viso to Nikon > adapter..... * I'll have a partial answer to this question in a few weeks when I get back my new (to me) used Telyt 400 f6.8 with a leitax bayonet installed. It will be a different focusing experience - push pull trombone focusing - compared to the turning of the Nikkor - and I'll have to try it to see which I prefer. Jury is out. > You would lose ..... > AF ( but the AIS lens has no AF) > Auto Aperture ( but you are shooting wide open anyway) > > How do the lenses compare, optically and image quality? 300/4.5 ED > IF AIS > Nikkor to the 280 Telyt ? *I have no first hand experience but I suspect the 280 Telyt would be the standard against which to measure the other lens. Doug Herr has commented on this earlier. > Maybe the caveat should be.. on a D700? *It certainly is my preferred platform - since a DMR is out of reach. More later Cheers Howard > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net