Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> I fear that Solms has sold-out. They now play the test-chart game to >compete with the Japanese lens manufacturers. They've abandoned their >original quest to be different -- and the MFT curves be damned. I think you are assuming an awful lot. Just because they may have some different approaches to lens design now than they have in the past, the new lenses prove they have not given up being the best, or even giving up on Leica's character. At least the ones I've used. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch "I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years." - -- Thelonious Monk