Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:43 AM 07-11-97 +1000, Rob wrote: > >I left the DR at home. It has these weird spectacle things that I guess >I'll figure out, but it looks like a project for a quiet time in the >future. This is certainly a lens with imagination - I think the >designers must have done some late night stints with some good German >beer (Weissbier - I think that's the stuff I had in Munich that was some >ridiculous strength like 9% - but I wasn't going to let those smirking >Germans think it would even start to dent the brain cells of an Aussie >abroad . . . so unfortunately I had far too many - damn this machismo >thing) because with its eyes on the DR looks like it comes from a >planet other than Earth. > I always felt that Leitz should have designed the DR so that the eyes were required at all time EXCEPT in the close-up mode, for two reasons, less chance of losing the eyes, since I use the lens in normal mode most of the time, and secondly, the lens looks so cool with those eyes on it. ;-) Dan C.