Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, Karen, it might behoove you to note that I was responding to a post that described a 50 1.4 Planar. The post may have been in error, but it was that to which I was responding. And while we're discussing thorns in sides, note that you were the one who originally posted the summary of the review discussing the virtues of the Zeiss lenses, and the one who made the cost comparisons - since we're talking about thorns. :-) *note the smiley. -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Karen Nakamura Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:22 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: [Leica] New Zeiss lenses compared against Leica At 3:00 PM -0500 04.12.22, B. D. Colen wrote: >I am aware of that, Feli - I am also aware, as are you, that they can >put any label they want on something, yet it can be radically changed >from the original design. I may well be completely wrong - but I >seriously doubt that given the major push Zeiss is making, they're >going to put out a 50 1.4 that isn't the equal of the latest Leica M >lens. But as I said, I may be very wrong. You're very wrong. :-) If you had taken the step of researching things, you would have found out that Zeiss isn't planning on any fast 50s for the moment. Their only announced 50 is a 50/2 Planar. http://www.zeissikon.com/lens.50.htm If you're going to be a thorn in people's sides, it behooves you to be an informed thorn. :-) Karen ps. Please note smileys! :-) -- Karen Nakamura http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information