[Leica] Which R lenses are good? Mediocre? Bad?

[Doug Herr]

Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

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a 24mm Elmarit-R and a 75-210mm zoom - neither of which I liked very much.
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75-200mm or 70-210mm?  These are both Minolta designs, the latter with some Leitz input.  The 75-200 (the older of these two) didn't impress me.  The sharpness was OK and it has good flare control but bokeh could get really funky, distortion was clearly evident and its mechanical construction was not up to Leica standards.  The 80-200mm f/4 (A Leica design made by Kyocera) is a much better lens.

Doug Herr
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