Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/08

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Subject: [Leica] BESSA R3A or M7
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Sat Jan 8 11:50:10 2005
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Hey! My Elmar-M is one hell of a lens.
S. Dimitrov


On Jan 8, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> I guess we'll have to compare the Zeiss lineup to Elmars. ;-)
>
>
> On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:50:48 -0700, John Collier <jbcollier@shaw.ca> 
> wrote:
>>  Aren't we comparing apples and oranges here? Zeiss is only offering
>> one high speed lens (85/2). I would be surprised if Zeiss couldn't
>> design an f/2 or f/2.8 lens that could at least equal Leica's faster 
>> --
>> and thus a heck of a lot harder to design -- offerings. If there were
>> f1.4 50s and 35s, then I would be paying attention. If there were an
>> f/2 25 or 21, then I would be ordering.
>>
>> John Collier
>>
>> On Jan 8, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
>>
>>> Zeiss has taken the remarkable stand in stating (in Q&A fashion) that
>>> it believes that the lenses will outperform those already on the
>>> market (I assume that they were talking about Leica et al). That's a
>>> pretty big statement to back up.
>>
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Slobodan Dimitrov
Photography


In reply to: Message from billgem at hotmail.com (Bill Marshall) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)
Message from telyt at earthlink.net (Doug Herr) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)
Message from jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)
Message from jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)
Message from jefferys at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] BESSA R3A or M7)