Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/08

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Subject: [Leica] Re:35mm f2 lens...Oh, Canada!
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Thu Feb 8 17:31:07 2007
References: <C1F1230D.B183%buzz.hausner@verizon.net>

We all know the best Leitz lenses were made in Canada...........

Ted told me this himself.

Chris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Buzz Hausner" 
Subject: [Leica] 35mm f2 lens...Oh, Canada!


> Permit me a moment of lunatic  heresy, but in my opinion...and I have used
> virtually every expression of this lens...the best combination is a 
> Canadian
> lens in the 346XXXX range with a metal 12585 shade.  Wetzlar provenance
> means nothing in terms of lens performance.  Unfortunately, unlike the 
> lens,
> a nice shade is none-to-cheap.  That said, please let us not rejoin the
> Midland versus Wetzlar brouhaha.
> 
> Buzz Hausner


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