> More than a 35 shift... I've been watching eBay
> (and spending too much
> money...) and I've never seen a 24 shift come
> up. I bet they are much rarer
> than the 35's. I wouldn't know what I would do
> with one, but if the
> opportunity came along for a "Fang" deal I
> would take it.
There was a 24mm shift available at Kamera
Express in the Netherlands about a month ago for
NLG 4595 (IIRC). That's about USD 1750-1800. I
believe that it had a 9 or 10 rating.
I definitely know what I would do with it, if it
wasn't so darn expensive. A good friend of mine
used to have a Minolta Dynax 7000 (a long time
ago) with a standard zoom. He moved to a Nikon
F3 with a 35mm shift as the ONLY lens. Having
played around with it, and having glanced over a
couple of Ansel Adams' and other's pictures, I
now find I could use a shift lens in about 5-30%
of my pictures, depending on the circumstances
(i.e. it makes a lot less sense in nature than in
the city).
One thing that I don't understand is why Olympus
decided to go for a friction-only shift
mechanism. I may be a candidate for zuikoholism,
but Nikon's system with turning buttons seems 1)
far more accurate and 2) less prone to wearing
out because of heavy use.
Peter.
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