Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/10/14

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Subject: [Leica] What I saw: 35-70 f2.8 R
From: feli at creocollective.com (Feli di Giorgio)
Date: Thu Oct 14 11:33:53 2004
References: <4cfa589b04101411131c5e4972@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 11:13, Adam Bridge wrote:
> I think I mentioned I met an Italian party photographing the
> goosenecks in south-eastern Utah and how ebullient they were.
> 
> Here's the lens they showed me. I think there are maybe 100 in the world?
> 
> <http://www.splitsecondfilms.com/2004-09/23-70apof2.jpg>
> 
> Adam

Nice...I think there were about 300 made during the initial production
run and then a few more were assembled later on. A few years ago these
were going for $4000 and up. Supposedly it's the best 2.8/35-70 ever
made, on par with Leica primes, but as you can see it's pretty big. I
wonder if Leica could put that puppy back in to production, now that
they have streamlined the manufacture of ASPH elements...


Feli


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