Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Date: Sat, 10 Feb 96 22:15:17 EST From: gang@mtdcr.mt.att.com The 28-70 zoom is not designed by Minolta but by Sigma and made by Sigma. It is optically the same design as the Sigma 28-70UC, but mechnically more metallic and has more Leica "look and feel", and supposedly passed Leica quality control. It is as good as any zoom lenses. There is some distortion towards the longer end. By the way, I paid $79.95 for my plastic Sigma version 3 years ago. But I'd guess you're using this lens on a non-Leica camera, because presumably Sigma don't sell lenses in Leica R mounts -- or do they? (I don't use zooms, but it does occur to me that people who do could break a lot of $79.95 lenses before they reached the cost of the Leica variant).