Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick wrote: <<<This I really do not understand (not your statement, the fact that this was not a popular lens) why.>>>> Hi Jim, I think it just wasn't fast enough for many of the Leica sports or news photographers who required to shoot indoors often. Or night action games. I used one during the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid in 1980 and I could never get the right feel of it, so never pursued getting one. I really wanted a faster lens and knew that a 280 or 300 2.8 or 2 was in the works. ted