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<p>If you always use auto focus go two ring faster focus.<br>

But if you like to manuel pick off the focus. the push pull is beeter.<br>

You can zero in on the focal range and framing and focus in one swipe. Not for the faint heated but the pro can nail it all at one time.<br>

On the 2 ring you are back and forth.<br>

Upside on the 2 ring is that the lens zoom does creep when look down or up!</p>

The problem is that below 85mm the Canon full frames are not sharp in the corners. It is a

problem for everyone. Once you crop out the unsharp area you are very close to the DX

format. Hmmmm? Until someone figures out how to make a ff wider lens sharp in the

corners, Nikon is going to stay with the DX format. The DX lenses aren't even sharp in the

corners.

The 12-24 sucks up to f8 in sharpness and CA.

If Nikon figures it out you will have FF once again. They know having all the awesome older

lenses above 50mm out there will be their edge.

I have used several Nikon 12-24mm zoom several times out of necessity .I bought one and

returned it. Not a sharp lense in my opinion. CA was way high and it lacked real punch for

me.

I heard another wider DX zoom was on it's way but?

Anyone know about it?

Marcus

Laurie,

Nice portfolio. You got a nice eye

Keep up the good work.

Marcus

Laurie,

I am sorry to hear about your mishap but I need to one up you on this one. I was in

Ethiopia a month ago. We were in the miles from civilization about 15 hours of dirt roads

by bus and 5 hours by horse in an area called Beta Gadet when the saddle on my horse

broke. I had my D2x on my back in a Tamarack backpack with a total of 60lbs of gear. I

went down very hard separating my right shoulder. But the Nikon lived up to it's

reputation once again. They put it on a separate horse for the remaining 8 hours. I gave

one of the horse wranglers a plastic bag to cover it but he decided to put it in his pocket

for later. It rained cat and dogs.

When I finally met up with the stuff it was not looking too good. But it all survived after a

day

of drying out I was back on the saddle. It wasn't as productive of an assignment as it

could have been with

one arm out of commission and all , but I got some great images and awesome memories.

Marcus<div></div>

Hi.

I just returned from Ethiopia and brought a brand new D2X (2) days before

leaving and took it.. I usually bring film and a film camera just in case but no

more. D2X on raw is better than film scanned on a drum. No more hassling

the film and xray machines. Awesome camera. Don't waste time with the jpqs.

Even the highest quality doesn't come close to the raw. Besides being 8 bit

sucks. I got throw off a horse separated my shoulder in a very remote region

near Beta Gadet and had to put my 60 lb. camera backpack on another horse.

The rain came down so hard it washed off the protective trash bag. The

camera got wet. But after a day of drying out it worked fine. You need to figure

the basic settings out and stick with them. I am an old school manual focus

puller guy and that saved me alot of grief since the options in AF are

mindblowing. Bring several cards at least 2 gig each you will use them up

very fast. The highlight feature is awesome once you figure it out. I finally

started using it near the end of my trip and the exposures were dead on after

that. Good luck.

I am selling a Leica R3 MOT in Excellent condition. with 2 excellent lenses. A

Leitz Canada Summicron-R 90mm F2 and a Leitz Wetzler Elmarit-R 28mm

F2.8 lens. Both in perfect shape. The 28mm has the Leitz lense shade. I was

told both lenses are set up to couple up to a R5 camera.

The 28mm has a leather case of it's own. The camera has the Leica leather

case in average condition.

Could someone help me get an idea of a good price to sell this stuff? It

belongs to a freinds 80 year old Dad. I have never owned Leica. Please be

fair.