Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/31

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Subject: [Leica] If You Absolutely Loved Your 1970 Vintage 105 Nikkor, Raise Your Hand!
From: masonster at gmail.com (David Mason)
Date: Tue Aug 31 14:06:20 2004
References: <000b01c48f9c$c84c72e0$121afea9@Hausner> <1093986631.4760.15.camel@failsafe>
 
I thought the DR was supposed to be the design to beat all summicron
designs. I have the version right after the DR and it blows me away -
by far the sharpest lens I own.

Dave

On 31 Aug 2004 14:10:31 -0700, Feli di Giorgio <feli@creocollective.com> 
wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 13:54, Buzz Hausner wrote:
> > I bought a Nikkor 105/2.5 in, I think, 1970 and used it a lot for twenty
> > years.  There's no sense comparing the qualities of any thirty-five year
> > old lens to a current production Leica lens.  However, I recall that I
> > felt the same emotional attachment to that lens as people seem to feel
> > to the 35 Summilux Aspheric and the 90 AA, which is saying quite a lot.
> >
> >       Buzz Hausner
> 
> Then again absolute sharpness isn't everything. I have both the current
> 2/50 Summicron and a Summicron DR and prefer the look of the DR.
> 
> FEli
> 
> 
> 
> 
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