Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/09

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Subject: [Leica] 70-180/2,8 APO
From: Lucien <lucien@ubi.edu>
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 18:22:51 +0100

Jorg Willems wrote:
> 
> My wife uses this lens a lot to shoot formal pictures for weddings.  Quite
> often her (potential) customers are asking (requesting) medium format
> pictures.  When they see her portfolio and compare her medium format
> (Hasselblad) with the APO 70-180/2.8 pictures they are always speechless.
> My wife is petite and constantly complains how heavy the lens is.  She
> almost returned it but is thankful that she didn't.  She uses it also for
> fashion photography.  Some weeks ago one of her customers used the pictures
> for movie theatre advertisements.  It was very impressive to saw those 35mm
> pictures on a big movie screen.
> 
> This is an awesome lens!
 
 Jörg,

When I read this, I think it's to bad it's not an AF lens.
It will be the ultimate tool.

Lucien