Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] consolidating my photo system....
From: Francesco <fls@san.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1998 20:14:35 -0800

I know Eric......settle down on one system!
That's why I had to think long and hard the past
2 months, and I have decided to go with the R system 
again, once and for all.  As you know I already have the 
100 and 180 APO lenses.  I will be getting an R8 again
and I was thinking of getting the 35/1.4 or the 50/2 to start
to fill in my wide-angles.......which would you go with
as a first complement to the 100 and 180?

Francesco








At 06:46 PM 12/13/98 , Eric Welch wrote:
>>I just wish Leica
>>would update the wide angles to ASPH.
>
>Francesco,
>
>ASPH isn't a cure-all. I really doubt the 19mm 2.8 could be significantly
>improved in any case and justify itself as being significantly better
>without the price becoming even high by Leica standards. The 35mm 1.4 is a
>superb lens, and second only to the 35 Summilux ASPH. I've owned two of
>them and loved them. But it does vignette. We shall see. They can't update
>all their lenses at once. They've been working over the M system because
>some of those lenses became more dated than the R compatriots. The R
>system's time will come. The thing is, settle down and get used to one
>system! :-)
>-- 
>
>Eric Welch
>St. Joseph, MO
>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch
>
>"...nostalgia ain't what it used to be." ...unknown
>