Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/01/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Odd, it is usually still near the top of tests if it is included. They have updated it in the S 120/2.5 macro (96mm equivalent) which by all accounts is the most outstanding lens in the S range (I use it ~80% of the time).....
john
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31 years ago, though is a very long time in camera years. That?s when the last version of the last Apo 100 macro Elmarit was designed and made.
I think it?s thought of as 2 or 3 or 4 generations ago; whole ?classes? of glass ago. That?s just too long a time to compete with all that?s gone down in optics I think.
I think if Leica comes out now with a 100 macro it?s going to be not in the same league as Nikon/Canon the price will reflect that. But not one them make 31 years ago. Nostalgia just doesn?t fit in there.
Mark William Rabiner
Photographer
On 1/16/18, 7:30 PM, "LUG on behalf of Mark Rabiner" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:
Based on looking at the specs it seem some R glass are a clear step up from old back then Nikon or Canon glass.
But much of them even back then were not any kind of special inspiration.