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Subject: [OM] Re: What would you do?
From: "Sandy Harris" <sandyinchina@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 08:44:34 +0800
om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <om2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So I have a question about a job that I am doing that is probably going to
> require me to have a slightly wider angle lens than the DZ 11-22mm that I
> already own. ....
>
> 1. Buy the DZ 7-14mm for my E-1.
>
> 2. Buy a Sigma 12-24mm in N*kon mount and either a D80 or F*ji S3.
>
> Both of these options come in at about the same sort of money ($1700) but
> that is not the problem for me. And yes I will acknowledge that they are not
> the same coverage the DZ gives 14mm equiv vs.. 18mm from the Sigma. ...

Why not a film camera? Cosina-Voigtlander Bessa R, (Leica thread mount)
$249, 15 mm F 4.5 $345, total under $600. Another $594 for the 12 mm
F 5.6 lens if you need it.
http://www.cameraquest.com

Or Bessa R2A or R3A with Leica M mount, $500-odd. That, the 15, and
one really interesting lens like the 35 1.2 are under $1700.

-- 
Sandy Harris
Quanzhou, Fujian, China

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