Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying R8,need advice on lenses conclusion
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 11:14:42 -0800
 
Alan Ball wrote:
> 
 But the
> price of the R system makes it a non-competing product in an extremely
> competitive high tech market.

The camera cost the same as the top of the line Nikon or Canon's it's
that high faluted macro 100 that blows the price out of the water. Other
lens are competitively priced even if made really by sigma or whoever.
I'd do the same though, give me one great lens and **** the whole system
approach. As Konica used to say in the sixties: The lens alone is worth
the price.
Mark :-) Rabiner