________________________________ From: Charlie Falke <chfalke@xxxxxxx> Even now, I still think of reflex cameras a little bit as something you use for long lenses, ______________ Not only.. For close-ups/macros and for use with extreme wide-angles, SLRs have some distinct advantages. For example, a 15mm Super-Elmar (on the SL2, won't fit the SL, as also the 19mm second version won't) is a very different animal from a Cosina-Voightländer 15mm on a rangefinder camera. The ability to get very close and to exactly compose and choose the foreground-background relationships gives very different results. The same holds true, though to a lesser degree, when using 19/21mm lenses. Chris