Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Imagine after owning and comparing four of those lenses how much fun it would be to buy another four to see how the new ones compare! Dan C. At 10:18 PM 23-12-00 +0000, D Khong wrote: >Dan Honemann wrote: >>I remember Dick Hemingway once posting that he had owned four 35/1.4 asph's >>over the years, and that two of them were great and the other two were >>mediocre at best. That 50% success rate has me wondering if others have >>noticed sample variation in Leica glass. >> >>For those like me who will never own more than one sample of any lens, it's >>an unsettling thought to consider that you may have one of the sub-par >>variations. On the one hand, if you don't notice it, who cares; on the >>other, why pay all this money for the very best optics if you end up >>receiving the equivalent of a much lower priced lens? > >Soooo.......best thing to do is to just own one and use it and don't compare. > >Dan K. > > > > > > >