Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I defer to John's lens analysis..... V3 and V4 have different optical designs..... I have version 3, and I would find it really hard to believe that any other version is as smooth and 3 dimensional as the example I have..... Just lovely...... And it does not suffer from the lens hood plastic ring problem.... Story..... I bought a V4 lens from Fleabay. It arrived with the ( plastic) ring destroyed, which would not be too bad, but it also acts as the aperture adjusting ring. It went to Sherry, who forwarded it to Leica USA that forwarded it to Germany for repair. About 4 months or more later, it came back in great shape..... Sherry told me that she had seen a lot of this kind of failure.... so to me, no matter how good the optical characteristics, if it is unreliable and has a fault, I do not want that version.... V4 is just taboo to me... YMMV...... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net