Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/15

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Subject: [Leica] R lenses and variable apertures
From: brad at bradbrad.com (brad daly)
Date: Tue Mar 15 21:53:42 2005
 
why is it that the zooms from leica all have variable maximum 
apertures, while the big-money zooms from canon and nikon generally 
have fixed maximum apertures?  i assume there's an optical quality 
issue or something.

just curious is all.

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