Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/26

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [Leica] Voigtlander Ultra-Wide - Heliar 12mm f/5.6 Aspherical]
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:10:18 -0400

B. D. Colen jotted down the following:

> It seems to me that some of the Canon and Nikon lenses of
> that period, particularly towards the end of that period, were certainly as
> good as, if not better than, a lot of the Leica lenses of the same
> period

Which, I assume, is a contributing factor to why Nikon became so popular
with photojournalists around that era.

M.

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