Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/26

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Subject: [Leica] will you ever buy another leica body?
From: robertmeier at usjet.net (Robert Meier)
Date: Fri Sep 26 14:36:57 2008
References: <DC4B73A4105FCE4FAE0CEF799BF84B36013F22E0@case-email.casefoods.com>

I have found the 24/2.8R to be astoundingly sharp, and that surprised me, 
because all the talk for years about this lens is that it is an inferior 
Minolta lens.  NOT SO!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Rodgers" <drodgers@casefarms.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 3:13 PM
Subject: RE: [Leica] will you ever buy another leica body?


> Daniel,
>
> The 28/2.8 R would be tops on my list. It may be the best lens I ever
> owned.
>
> DaveR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Ridings [mailto:dlridings@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 2:24 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] will you ever buy another leica body?
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:09 PM, Kyle Cassidy <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
> wrote:
>> In the serious discussion I noticed several people said or implied
> that
>> they would probably never buy another M body. I may or may not myself,
>> but I was thinking that I'm probably actually MORE likely to buy
> another
>> _leica_ than I was before. I suddenly find the idea of having an R3 or
>> some variant much more appealing than I did before. (I'd love an R8
> but
>> I don't think the prices will likely drop into "affordable for goofing
>> off" any time soon).
>
> If I can get a handle and all of the cams on Leica R lenses and can
> find a couple of R lenses that interest me, then I am seriously
> looking at Doug's SL2.
>
> A 90 would interest me. A 28? A 35? Not sure. I just want to goof around
> too.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
>
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Replies: Reply from Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com (Frank Dernie) ([Leica] will you ever buy another leica body?)
In reply to: Message from drodgers at casefarms.com (David Rodgers) ([Leica] will you ever buy another leica body?)