Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Noctilux vs Summicron
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:52:37 -0500

Krechtz@aol.com jotted down the following:

> In a message dated 11/14/00 12:45:55 PM Eastern Standard Time, guybnt@idt.net
> writes:
> 
> << in a word, it seems foolhardy to spend $3000 on a lens when there is a $600
> lens that would do the same thing.
> 
> does that clear things up? >>
> 
> Sure - if you can come up with a precise definition of "the same thing".
>

Bends the hell out of light rays and squeezes them onto a small rectangle of
film...?

M.

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