Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:43 PM 5/7/98 +0800, you wrote: >You might and I might go for the optical quality now but most of the people >in the market (whether professional or amateur) would have gone for the >Nikon for the very good reason that it existed ten years before Leica came Maybe so. That was one of the reasons I dropped Leicas a couple years ago for a while. I forgot the pull of the lenses. :-) This lens was not developed earlier because the owners of Leica at the time didn't like zooms and would only let the company bring in a couple of Minolta zooms to quiet the criticism from people who wanted zooms. Now with new ownership, Leica came up the the state of the art lens for that range. I don't care if it doesn't have AF. It would have it Leica was using AF at the time. I want one, and saw one recently use for $3,900. I'd buy it if I wasn't already paying off what I've got now. Some day... ========= Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO Mi.caw.ber n [Wilkins Micawber, character in the novel David Copperfield (1849-50) by Charles Dickens : 1852] : one who is poor but lives in optimistic expectation of better fortune