Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Pardon if this has been hashed over before, if so anyone can e-mail me privately. I'm asking this for a family member who asked me for advice and I'm not qualified to answer. She has the opportunity to purchase a second-hand set of 28-70 3.5-4.5 and 70-210 f4. (I know that the newest 80-200 is a better-performing lens than the 70-210 but it's 300g heavier and even used it's out of her price range.) The questions: 1. Do the 70-210 images have the "Leica look" re. contrast and color rendition or is the fingerprint more like Minolta's who designed and produced the lens? Also, I know that the 70-210 was produced up until just a couple years ago, long after the Leica-Minolta alliance ended, so were *all* the 70-210's made by Minolta or were later ones made by someone else? 2. I have the same question re: "Leica-look" about the 28-70 (which I believe was designed and produced by Sigma), plus I notice that in the current Leica catalog there's a new stock number for the 28-70 and comparing pictures of it with an older brochure it is a different mount also (the new one has a screw-on hood while the older one had a pull-out hood). The specs still give the same # elements and groups, but I'm wondering if anyone knows if the lens is optically different or just the mount has changed. TIA DT