Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/19

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us, leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Quality of older M lenses
From: "Roger L. Beamon" <beamon@primenet.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 07:52:42 -0700 (MST)
 
At 07:20 AM 9/19/96 -0400, Marc James Small wrote:
>I'm not trying to be rude or offensive, but Mr Puts seems pretty aggressive
>in suggesting that we all travel to a Leica test bench to test Leica lenses.
>This seems on par with going to General Motors to ask about the quality of
>the latest Chevy.
>
>I would be curious to know whether Mr Puts ever tests lenses at a non-Leica
>facility and whether his tests include non-Leica lenses.  If so, how do his
>tests compare with those of CI and similar journals?  Is the evaluation Mr
>Puts performs truly independent and neutral?

My interpretation of Mr. Put's posts, so far, Marc, is that he has his own
test facilities and they are what he proposes to use for "the trip". How
about it Erwin?
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