Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:07 AM 10/14/97 -0500, Eric Welch, erratic soul but dedicated Leica user wrote: > >Like who gives a rip if a lens is made in Canada or Germany? Collectors. Do >we rely on collectors to determine what is more usable? I don't think so, >though some are certainly no doubt great users as well, it's their shooting >ability to determine that, not their knowledges of obscure Leica trivia. Eric! Please! You'll never be permitted into Court Tennis with such a, well, STRONG approach to things! I have Canadian Leica lenses. Shockingly, they produce pictures identical to those shot on lenses made in Wetzlar (TM) or Solms (TM). For that matter, my glove-box camera is a SINGAPORE Rollei 35 with a SINGAPORE Tessar. Shockingly, it produces shots which are as grand as those from the German 35's with honest-to-Ernst-Abbe Oberkochen Tessar's I've owned. QA counts. Reputation doesn't. Let your conscience be your guide (credit: Jiminy Cricket, great Leica photographer, circa 1955, about the time Eric's dad was sort of considering maybe ... ) (but us old-timers DO remember Jiminy, an inspiration for troubled times, as is Eric). Best wishes to all, Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!