Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:38 PM 1999-02-01 +0000, Christer Almqvist wrote: >As my Leica dealer once said: "All Leica lenses are good enough >for most of us, and do not beleive that later versions are always better >than earlier ones; many changes have been made to reduce manufacturing >costs." (..... and to increase selling prices at the same time???) I used to say the same. And then I started READING what Erwin Puts was writing and realized, egg on my face and a blush on my youthful cheeks, that I was wrong! Newer lenses are better. I have proof: a 3.4/135 APO-Televid and a 2.8/90 Elmarit. I will buy the 2/90 APO ASPH as soon as it appears. Newer lenses ARE better, and, yes, the difference is noticeable, even to slum-gully photogs like me and thee. Jim Brick and Ted Grant and Eric Welch and Tina Manley will see a REAL difference but even the likes of us will note the difference. Buy new. Enjoy the old, but, for REAL quality, buy new. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!