Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] filter usage + lens tests
From: "Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:45:57 -0800

<snip> 
All that long-winded introduction to this question: Should I expect to get
as good photos from these older R lenses as compared to the newer ones?
They look so much less expensive used as the new ones. Is it because the new
ones have electronics etc. built into them? Is the glass, formulas etc.
essentially the same?<snip>

No.  Newer lenses will be sharper.  The Leica folks have bettered the
Miinolta designs in more recent vintages of lenses.