Mike wrote (in the Bresson thread)
>But I'll bet if anybody on this list got a chance to do some moderately
>heavy shooting for a few days--say, 5 rolls a day over the course of a
>10-day vacation, of some subject matter that really engaged them--9 out of
>10 would end up doing better work with one LX and one $30 50/2 than they
>would with a bagful of crap that included however many fancy klunky big ol'
>zoom lenses you want to name. If you don't buy that, well, fine. But it's a
>bet I'd be happy to take.""
In the site Pentaxclover mentioned yesterday somebody tried exactly that.
(merci Clover, nice link)
An old Leica M2 with 50mm versus the F100 with 80-200f2.8
Interesting results, even if you don't understand French (many pictures)
http://www.pictchallenge.com/diabolpif/Montoire1.html
and
http://www.pictchallenge.com/diabolpif/Montoire2.html
For those who don't understand French, for the tester it came down to being
certain to get the picture in the bag with the F100, versus the occasional
more original shots, while throwing away a lot, with the Leica.
Erwin
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