Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/06/05

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Subject: Re: Was: [Leica] Noctilux Now: Summilux
From: Bill Welch <welch@pressroom.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 11:45:00 -0400

While there may be a touch of truth in all this, it strikes me as the
height of absurdity for someone to pine for improvement in a lens he or she
has never even used. 

For goodness sakes, forget the lens testers' charts and go make some
photographs.

Bill Welch



At 10:43 AM 6/5/98 EDT, you wrote:
><< This reminds me of the brutal change of positions of the more vocal Leica 
> users religious leaders regarding the 35mm f2 summicron and the rangefinder 
> performance of the M6 with longer/faster lenses a few months ago. >>
>
>Alan, you make a good point.  While it seems true with many folks for many
>things, some Leica users seem to be very defensive when confronted with the
>possibility that there might be something better than what they have.  
>
>
>Tom Shea
>