Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/31

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Subject: [Leica] If You Absolutely Loved Your 1970 Vintage 105 Nikkor, Raise Your Hand!
From: sdp35 at cwazy.co.uk (sdp35)
Date: Tue Aug 31 15:28:00 2004
References: <000b01c48f9c$c84c72e0$121afea9@Hausner>

I still have a nice Nippon Kogaku version of the 105/2.5 Nikkor - still 
love it.

Craig Zeni
NC

On Aug 31, 2004, at 4:54 PM, Buzz Hausner wrote:

> I bought a Nikkor 105/2.5 in, I think, 1970 and used it a lot for 
> twenty
> years.  There's no sense comparing the qualities of any thirty-five 
> year
> old lens to a current production Leica lens.  However, I recall that I
> felt the same emotional attachment to that lens as people seem to feel
> to the 35 Summilux Aspheric and the 90 AA, which is saying quite a lot.
>
>       Buzz Hausner
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+buzz.hausner=verizon.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf
> Of Feli di Giorgio
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 4:50 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Lenses without digital Bodies, Anyone?
>
> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 13:04, B. D. Colen wrote:
>> Well it's a Nikon description, but the images suggest my memory hasn't
>> totally gone to hell.:-) Thanks, Feli -
>
> Well, here's what I have read elsewhere. The 105/2.5 is very, very 
> good.
>
> Not as good as a 2.8/100 APO or 2.8/90 Elmarit, but it also costs a 
> heck
> of a lot less.
> ;-)
>
> Feli
>
>
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