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RE: [OM] Re: Keeping "unused" lens

Subject: RE: [OM] Re: Keeping "unused" lens
From: "George M. Anderson" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:10:35 -0800
> >
> >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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