Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica R vs. Contax SLR lenses
From: Dave Yoder <leica@home.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:52:16 -0700
 
But what about the newish 19mm 28mm elmarits, for example? I've got them both
and they're obviously new designs, and both stunning in performance.

Dave Yoder

InfinityDT@aol.com wrote:

>
>
> >From my observations of the Leica R line, they seem to be *discontinuing* a
> lot of the shorter primes and the ones that are left (save for the 50
> Summilux) have been around for quite a while.  The 35 and 50 Summicrons are
> contemporary with the M lenses of about *2* generations past, and the 24
> dates back to Minolta days. Even the 80 1.4 is getting a bit long in the
> tooth.