Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:35 PM 4/10/99 -0700, you wrote: > >Also BTW, I was at Sammy's Cameras in LA yesterday and one of their >Leica users said they did their own benchmark tests and found the R >lenses to be sharper than the M's. How 'bout that? > >Dave Y > That's is a totally ambiguous and meaningless statement. I use both M & R extensively. The only way a comparison test can be conducted is on a lens by lens basis. 24R vs 24M (don't even need to test this to know which wins... and it isn't the R lens). 90 M APO ASPH vs 90 R Summicron... hello??? Old 28 M vs new 28 R and old 50 M Summilux vs new 50 R Summilux... R probably wins both times as they are the latest designs. But... A blanket statement cannot be made. Most of the time it's like testing Apples vs Oranges. Jim