Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/03

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica R: Is It Worth It?
From: Gary Elshaw <gary.elshaw@vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 01:34:10 +1200

Mitch, you need a Visoflex. (Come on guys, you knew i was going to say that!)

http://elshaw.tripod.com/Visoflex/Visoflex.html

All the best,
Gary


At 12:01 AM -0700 3/5/2000,  Mitch wrote:
>However, the quality of transparencies being produced by the
>Leica M setup has me wondering if Leica R equipment would be equally
>impressive. Is it worth selling the Nikon equipment and beginning to
>assemble a Leica R kit, especially given the outrageous prices of many R
>lenses or are the quality of N***n pro lenses pretty darn close to Leica R
>lenses?
- -- 

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youthful dreaming is itself "growing up," as though adulthood were 
the passive conclusion to a doomed activity and hope during 
adolescence."


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Gary Elshaw
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Victoria University
New Zealand
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