Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/27
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On 27 May 97 at 6:11, Dave Stedman wrote:
> For whatever its worth, my son and I own 5 Angieneux lens. A
> 35-70, a 70-210, ea. 45-90's, and a 180 f2.3 APO. All are three
> cam. Also I own a late 35-70 Leica zoom, a late 70-210 Leica
> zoom, and a 70-180 APO zoom. Of all of these, clearly the 70-180
> APO is the winner, but not by a large margin.
>
> My impression of the Angieneux lens is that they are extremely
> good. They are real sleepers, and thus getting hard to find. This
> of course is going to drive the prices up.
Can you confirm that the 180/2.3 does not need IR-focus correction?
I located one in FD mount for a nice price, it seems as if average
used price is well over US$1000 (true?).
What are the weight/size specifications btw?
Thanks!
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Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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