Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Which is better M Series lens 21 f/2.8 or 24 f/2.8
From: kabob@tiac.net (Bob Keene/Karen Shehade)
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 08:12:52 -0400

>Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:29:04 -0500
>From: Rob Schneider-Laura Tully <robslaurat@earthlink.net>
>Subject: RE: [Leica] Which is better M Series lens  21 f/2.8  or 24 f/2.8
>
>B. D. Colen wrote:
>
>> You will undoubtedly waste frames from time to time, but film is
>> cheap..:-)
>>
>> I haven't used the 24, but the 21 ASPH is absolutely phenomenal...Sharp
>> from
>> edge to edge...very little distortion...I'll bet that at this point I use
>> it
>> for 30 to 50 percent of my shooting....
>>
>So you're saying that you lose as many as 18 frames on a 36-exposure roll
>because the camera lacks something as simple as a shutter release lock?
>This is TOTALLY unacceptable on a camera that costs $2000.
>

Rob.....

stop it. you're stirring up the stew.

;)

Bob (get out of the kitchen) Keene