Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Zeiss! No -- Leica; No, Zeiss; No -- Bush! No... Gore...
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 21:24:26 -0500
References: <200011080801.AAA21897@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

At 11:19 AM 11/8/2000 -0500, Douglas Cooper wrote:
>I haven't tried all of the new Konica lenses, and they may 
>well give the Leicas a run for their money (although the Hexar's hardly a 
>"line" yet); and my limited experience of Canon LTMs suggests that they can 
>perhaps hold their own with early Leica optics, but the M line seems 
>uniformly superb.  

Clearly, a Dhuglaise, you've not sampled the SPS Jupiters.  They blow most
of the Canon and Leica LTM lenses into the weeds.  And they are cheap.

Marc

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