Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>>>>>>>> >The Vario-Elmarit-R 35-70 f/2,8 ASPH (wish Leica should invent shorter names) weighs 1050 grams and uses E77 filters. Lenght from bayonet is 88m= m and lens cap diameter 133mm. > Reply : according to CI n=B0 207, p. 17 the length is 133 mm and the diam= eter is 88 mm.You have inverted the data. <<<<<<<<<< Yow! That's the size of Nikon's current 80-200 f/2.8 lens (though about 20% lighter), a lens I got rid of because it was bigger and heavier than I cared to carry. But this is a 35-70, a normal lens. I don't doubt for a moment that it will be optically superb. I wonder, though, if its size limits its usefulness as a normal lens. I don't expect it will bother photojournalists or nature photographers also carrying the 70-180 R -- and perhaps it's aimed primarily at those kinds of groups. But it's not exactly what I'd want dangling from my neck while vacationing at Disneyland. Larry