Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/09/27

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Subject: [Leica] will you ever buy another leica body?
From: grduprey at mchsi.com (grduprey@mchsi.com)
Date: Sat Sep 27 09:38:41 2008

My 24/2.8 R is also a stunner.

Gene

-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Robert Meier" <robertmeier@usjet.net>
>
> 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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> 
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