Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:17 AM 7/17/96 -0700, you wrote: >time. This is not the situation in the R models, where there are >several alternative SLRs available with similar features and >equivalent quality optics. That is not true. The R system has some lenses that have no peer in any line, and are even better than their M coutnerparts. It's true the bodies have not kept up with the competition. But who cares? If you don't need the features, don't use them. I have experience wtih Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Contax. They have great lenses, but overall the R system is better. Individual lenses (and number of selection of exotic focal lengths and apertures) you can say that the others have an advantage, but as a system, the R has no peer. (Nobody can match the 100 Apo Macro, the 180 f/2, the 280 f/4, the 800, the 19 2.8) And only the M can match the 35 R Summilux with the ASPH. Those aren't the only "great" R lenses either. Just the most outstanding. =================== Eric Welch Grants Pass (OR) Daily Courier NPPA Region 11 JIB chair "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a tagline out of my hat!"