Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Angenieux never made a 35-70 for Leica but I'm sure the 45 to 90 was a quality lens. The Vario Elmar 35-70 was originally made by Minolta, and then in 1988 was produced in Germany. The lens is exactly the same optically but the German lens does not have a rotating front element, thus polariser friendly. The 35-70 is supposed to be an amzing zoom lens. I believe that most, if not all of the lenses built by other companies for the different Leica systems were built to Leica specifications, so theoretically they should all be excellent quality lenses, whether this is true in practice is another question. Has anyone done any comparisons between lenses built by Leitz and ones built by Schneider, Zeiss, Minolta etc. for Leica? If so I would be very anxious to hear what you came up with. Cheers and Merry Christmas, Matthew Chris Fortunko wrote: > > I was told today that Angenieux made a 35-70 zoom for the Leica. Is this > true? I cannot find any references to such a lens in my literature. > > Can anyone comment on the 45-90 zoom by the same manufacturer. Is it up to > today's lenses in terms of performance? > > Thank you, > > Chris