Re: [Leica] HEXAR RF Limited with 50/1,2 in 2001 ?

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

My Dear Joe,*

I was not in any way saying that you and your esteemed friend ‹ not to imply
that you are not esteemed by me and many others too embarrassed to declare
themselves openly but just to say you hold your friend's opinion highly ‹
did like the Hexar and are now trying to stop others from enjoying the
pleasures you have found and want to keep for yourselves, but, that others
have commented favourably on the Hexar and that Dante has not wrongly
bestowed his affections on it. I hope that has cleared our little
misunderstanding.

Take care

John

*As I only know a few Joes should it then be dearest as this Joe certainly
comes to mind the most? Or does that imply I know more Joes than just a few?
Do I have to hold some Joes dear in order to have a dearest Joe or can I
only find one Joe dear amongst a few and still call him dear? And how many
is a few? Less than more?

> From: Krechtz@aol.com
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:02:32 EDT
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] HEXAR RF Limited with 50/1,2 in 2001 ?
> 
> In a message dated 9/21/00 9:48:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> jbcollier@home.com writes:
> 
> << The Hexar 35/2 lens is indeed a copy of the preasph Summicron. I have not
> done any comparisons myself but all the reviewers, including the bokeh nuts,
> thought Konica was successful. >>
> 
> Would that be the '69 design or the revered "last and final
> never-to-be-repeated pre-aspheric"?  Don't know, much less care, about the
> impressions of the reviewers or "bokeh nuts".  I am neither.  I bought the
> camera in reliance upon what reviewers reported.  They evidently did not use
> the camera the way I did.  What I can relate from experience is that another
> photographer I know bought the Hexar when I did, and we compared notes.  We
> both saw the same phenomena in the results.  We both sold our Hexars.  So
> much for theory and second hand experience.
> 
> Joe Sobel