Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1995/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]** Reply to note from msmall@roanoke.infi.net 12/11/95 08:28am -0500 > Later redesigns have been to reduce manufacturing costs and not to > improve performance, and current production lenses simply are not as > generally satisfactory as those made 25 years ago. Your opinion is not in concert with many, including BAS labs in Germany which is a highly repsected test lab. The latest 35 Summicron is supposed to be the best they've ever made. But then Leica did slip for a while and not necessarily make the best they ever did, but there's no arguing that now they are producing the best they ever have. And from several friends who've used several versions of the 35 Summicron, the last is definitely the best. (I have the next to last.) i.e. 100 Apo Macro, 280 Apo Telty, 180 Apo Summicron, 70-180 2.8 Apo Zoom, 35 Summioux Aspheric II. Regards, Eric Welch Grants Pass, OR