Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:44 PM 8/26/98 -0400, you wrote: >I hope you are kidding. The Nikkor 35-70 2.8 has been on the market for >years, as has the Canon 28-70 2.8, and both are more than respectable. And the Canon, I can assure you, is going to be bigger and heavier by a long shot than the Leica. A change of pace for sure. That thing is a moose! What ground breaking thing Leica will be doing for this lens is the performance if any of their latest zooms (high end) are an indication. That's what makes Leica so good, not how fast they are to market. - -- Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Drug kingpin Amado Carrillo Fuentes...died from nine hours of liposuction and plastic surgery -- or, as it's commonly known here in Beverly Hills, natural causes. Bill Maher