At 11:05 PM 8/31/2003 -0500, John A. Lind wrote:
At 06:16 PM 8/31/03, Richard F. Man wrote:
My main criteria are sharp pictures in hand held shooting in low light
wide apertures. I am happy with my decision. I just thought that you
should quantify why you want a MF before getting one.
An aside:
MF would not work well for this. The *fastest* MF lens that has ever been
made is the Sekor 80/1.9 for the Mamiya manual focus 645's and it's still
in production (same lens mount for decades). Everything else starts at
f/2.8 or slower. In addition, the lenses for 6x7 and 6x9 are slower than
the comparable ones for 645 and 6x6.
...
I didn't say I bought a MF camera with my reasonings!! :-) As some of you
know, I bought a Le$ca M7...
and I know I should be get kicked out for saying this, but for the purpose
of my shooting styles, the M7 and its lens are "better" a majority of the
time. The Zuiko 50/2 and 90/2 are as good at 2.8 and up, but not at 2, and
I get at least one extra stop because of the lack of mirror vibration. This
is just for me though. I find that I still focus faster w/ the SLR
groundglass so the OM-4T get used for that, plus the macros and telephoto.
// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com>
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