Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/22

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Subject: [Leica] D700
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:04:18 +1030
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The new 24-120 is just as bad as the first one.  I don't know if it's
been redesigned optically, but it is cosmetically different and has
AF-S and VR.  When I tested a Nikon D700 that was the lens that Nikon
sent with the camera.  I thought something was wrong with the camera
until I tried it with some better glass.

I agree on VR; it's great.  It's just a shame that subject movement
makes it less useful for what I do, but a camera with built-in
anti-shake and good f1.4 lenses would be nice.

Marty

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
wrote:
> >From what I know the 24-120 established a bad rep from day one but was
> completely redone a few years later then completely redone again then a few
> years later completely redone again with VR. It could be ok by now though I
> like zooms which vear on the conservative side. But the 24-120 has VR.
> And VR is a not to be an underestimated game changer.
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>> From: Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:19:10 +1030
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] D700
>>
>> I don't like zooms. ?The 24-70 2.8 AF-S is decent. ?The 24-120 is the
>> worst; the real dog of the Nikkor range.
>>
>> Just about any wide range zoom is hopeless for architectural work.
>>
>> Marty
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Replies: Reply from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] D700)
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Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] D700)