Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Lucien wrote: > A new R 35-70/2,8 ! (After a 35-70/3,5 and a 35-70/4 !) > What a nice zoom line ! > IMO, the most banal focals for a zoom. Piano, piano, Lucien: the GREAT news is that a 28-70 f2.8 is planned for Photokina 2002. Rumours even consider plausible that a 20-35 f2.8 could come out around that time. But these are rumours. Leica remains the innovator it always was, way ahead of the pack. You do not realize that all the high-end 35mm shoppers were praying for that lens so that they could at last jump into the R bandwagon. ;-/ Leica knows best, it does not provide hype, it waits till the technologies are mature and reliable. From today on, the 35-70 f2.8 zoom type has reached maturity. Before that it was a bells and whistle gadget for techno freaks. Okay, easy sarcasm, I know. More seriously, it will probably be the best 35-70 in the industry, that's all, and maybe someone actually cares. Not me. Two lenses make the R line for me: the 100mm f2.8 APO-macro and the 180mm f2.8 APO. Maybe some exotic longer R tele makes sense to a few specialists. For the rest, that R line is for me a source of infinite puzzlement.... > > And 14 years for a M6 TTL Flash !! with a 1/50 syncro ! > I was expecting it in 1984 ! > If that's all the improvement they can offer after 14 years. > And I hear (not confirmed) that it will be a few minimeter taller. > (If it's true, what about those of us who use the NF 50mm ?) I can't imagine that the size would change at all. That seems crazy, if only for production constraints. > Really, I don't understand. Neither do I. > I hope that others are happy. All this should not affect anyone's happiness, don't you think ? Who are we to judge ? They have super business people at Solms, and SAP R/3. They MUST know what they are doing. Let's go back to blind faith mode, and keep smiling : they are releasing a Fuji consumer grade digital camera. And it is prettier than the Fuji. That is the way to go : take the mainstream digital cameras from Fuji and let Hasselblad deal with Fuji's antiquitated rangefinder offering. Okay, enough said, when are we going to buy all this ? I AM going to get the M6 TTL HM AND the 135mm f3.4. What are you going to purchase ? Friendly regards Alan Brussels-Belgium