Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:44 AM 7/26/98 +0100, you wrote: ><<<<<The 80-200/4 is a great lens, very sharp. The image quality is >excellent wide open and stopped down. I believe it is based on the Zeiss >80-200 and made in Japan for Leica by Kyocera. It is a bit heavy and long. It is not based on the Zeiss lens. It's a Leica design. Kyocera builds it for Leica. See Eastland's Leica R8 book for confirmation. >But then everything in the world would be perfect if designers were >perfect.....then we wouldn't have anything to bitch about! :) :) You know, those rubber grips on the lens (70-180) probably would come off and would be easy to replace. Leica should fix the problem by replacing the ring at the photographer's request. How much can it cost? - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch There is a pleasure in being mad in which none but mad men know. Dryden