Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:27 PM 4/12/98 +0200, you wrote: >answer. It is fact, Leica have an coperation contract with Minolta and others. Not with Minolta any more, except for those two lenses they contribute to. There is no similarity to any other Minolta lens and Leica lens. Leica lenses are the best. That's the only justification for paying the extra money. We can make the same pictures compositionally with any camera from Diana to Linhof. But the best glass on the planet (overall) is Leicas. And the only rangefinders that really work in the hard day to day scrabble of photojournalism and documentary photography are Leica M. That's why we buy Leica. Sorry if I came across as harsh, but we deal with the "But Leica's are just Minoltas in full metal jackets" all the time, and it's just not true. Period.