Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.