Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/24

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Subject: [Leica] re: 50mm lens
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Wed May 24 17:33:15 2006
References: <200605240951.AA1357775114@cshore.com>

When you go into the photo collections of museums and look at the images
taken forty/fifty years ago many of them are quite sharp.  I don't think
that time machines had been invented yet so the lenses must have been at
least OK.  :)

Don
don.dory@gmail.com


On 5/24/06, dnygr <dnygr@cshore.com> wrote:
>
> We all think that new is better. I use a lot of old lenses on my large
> format equipment. They work fine and are often smaller than modern
> equivalents.
>
> People 100 years ago weren't dumb afterall.
>
> It's nice to see how your new, old lens works well.
>
> Doug
>
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