> >
> >Lenses I doubt I'll ever sell...
> >350/2.8 (BUT - Here's a month's living expenses!)
>
> SOLD! I'll give you a month's worth of MY living expenses for
> your 350/2.8! (Or were you talking about YOUR living expenses? :-)
ROTFL! :>)
>
> >Lenses I thought I'd never sell until recently:
> >80, 90 or 135 macro (how can I justify keeping all of these? Can
> anyone HELP
> >ME?)
>
> They are very different. The 90 is general purpose. The 80 copies
> slides. the 135 focuses to infinity on a bellows. How could you
> possibly give one of them up? :-)
You're right!
>
> >Lenses I'd like to buy even now:
> >18/3.5 OR 21/3.5 MC
>
> I sold my 21/3.5 and got a 21/2, which is now one of my
> favorites. Besides nearly two stops more light, it focuses
> closer, and has better corner lighting. (The 21/3.5 -- at least
> the one I had -- is noticeably darker in the corners, even
> without a filter. But it is a lot smaller and lighter.)
>
I did that too, but found the 21/2 so soft at the corners at 2 or 2.8 that
the extra heft was not worth it. I'd trade straight across for a 3.5
(though my 21/2 is a beater.)
G
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