Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:20 PM 5/22/96 -0400, you wrote: >The touted Leica Summilux-M Aspherical f1.4 35mm was rated hervorragend. Not surprising at all. Longer lenses are easier to design in many ways than fast wide angles. And I know from other reports the EOS 300 2.8 is actually a tad better than the 280 f/2.8 Apo telyt. And a hair behind the Zeiss 300 2.8 Tele Apo Tessar (which lists at $25,000 and sells for around $15,000). >Most other tested Leica lenses were in the hervorragend category with >the exception of the Leica Super Elmarit-R f3.5 15mm which was rated gut >(good) the equal to Nikon with other manufacturers in the satisfactory >category. Whoa! A Zeiss lens rated only good! Blake Ziegler will not like that! <g> ========================== Eric Welch Grants Pass Daily Courier