Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Affordable Leica Lenses
From: InfinityDT@aol.com
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 10:00:27 EDT

In a message dated 9/8/99 12:53:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
artsala@earthlink.net writes:

<< When I first became interested in Leicas (1970'something), I remember
 looking at the R3 and thinking that in order to afford this camera kit, I
 would have to opt for the R35f2.8 and the R90f2.8 lenses.  At that time,
 much more affordable than the Summicrons (as the story goes, I opted for
 Nikon for another decade).
 
 So what happened to these lenses?  Was the optical performance not up to
 Leica standards?  Did Leica figure that a newbie on a budget could opt for
 clean used lenses instead of these slower variants?
 
 Cheers,
 Arturo >>

Evidently Leica feels that anyone who doesn't want heavy, fast, expensive 
primes will opt for their "budget" zooms.  Note that the 135 2.8 and 180 f4 
have also disappeared.  This is a trend in common with the Japanese 
manufacturers...of all the Japanese trends Leica continues to buck, they 
chose to follow that one.