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[OM] Re: the wonderfull 100mm f2

Subject: [OM] Re: the wonderfull 100mm f2
From: iwert <zuiko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 23:43:39 +0200
Op 7-jun-06 om 23:31 heeft AG Schnozz het volgende geschreven:

>> I'd give up the 35-80/2.8 or the 90/2 before I'd let go the
>> 100/2.  I feel pretty much the same way about the 135/4.5,
>> too.
>
> I've had the opportunity to use a 100/2 under the watchful eye
> of its owner. If Joel hovered any closer the lens would have
> fogged.  ;)
>
> Anyway, I will admit that it's a very sweet hunk-o-glass.  Very
> sweet indeed.  However, the controls were switched around and I
> felt like I was using a Nikkor.  It looked REALLY good on my E-1
> and I shot a few comparison shots, but strangely enough, it
> wasn't comfortable to me.  Maybe it was the nervous owner
> nearby, maybe it was the knowledge that it cost more than almost
> my entire kit. Regardless of what it was, I happily returned to
> my 100/2.8.

That is very strange, wasn't it the 90f2 with the switched controls? 
That's why I sold my 90f2 for the 100f2.
The controls are "normal" albeit a bit bigger. And it has a silly hood 
built in...

>
> There is a part of me--the retrogrouch--that would pick up an
> OM-3Ti and a few of these deeeelux F2 lenses and kiss off
> digital.  It sure would make weeklong back-country expeditions a
> whole lot easier than the nightmare of digital in the field.
> Hey, I've got an outstanding film scanner--what more do I need?
>
> AG

A 3Ti, MD2 and an 100f2, haha!

Iwert.


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