Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/26

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Subject: RE: [Leica] To Buy or Not to Buy: a Leica 0
From: leica@davidmorton.org
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 19:02:06 +0100

Mark Rabiner writes:

"A truly sick joke which i don't buy for a moment BD, Peter and all.
Why would not the new collapsible Elmar be that kind of gem?
instead of a slight step down in quality because of less optical elements."

At http://www.imx.nl/photosite/leica/lensreports/anastigmat-2.html Erwin
says:

"In the center and at aperture 3.5 this lens challenges the performance of
the Summicron 2/50, still the benchmark lens in the 50mm focal length class.
Stopped down to 6.3 (you have to get used to the older aperture scales) the
performance in he field now equals that on axis and only the corners still
lag behind. Performance now is outstanding, with very clean defintion of
extremely fine detail, and one would wish this lens to become available as a
compact standard lens for M."

- -- 
David Morton
dmorton@journalist.co.uk

"There are only two services that images can offer the afflicted. One is to
find the story that expresses the truth of their affliction. The second is
to find the words that can give resonance, through the crust of external
circumstances, to the cry that is always inaudible: "Why am I being hurt?"
- -- Simone Weil 
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