[Leica] IMG: First Intercontinental LUG gathering in Barcelona News - MARK & DANIEL

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rolling on the floor laughing so hard
:-))



> From: "B. D. Colen" <bd at bdcolenphoto.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2012 18:05:37 +0000
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: First Intercontinental LUG gathering in
Barcelona
> News - MARK & DANIEL
>
> Nope. Can't be. Even if Rockwell says it is.
> The Worst Lens Ever Made (by a name brand manufacturer) In The History of
The
> Modern Universe was, without a doubt, with NO room for argument:
>
> The 43-86 Nikkor zoom. To this day I remain convinced that Nikon
contracted
> with the Coca Cola company for returned glass bottle bottoms to use as
front
> elements. This lens was such a dog that it howled when it was mounted. If
> there was a single lens that gave the concept of zooms a bad name, this
was
> it. In a word, this lens really, really, really sucked.
>
> On the other hand, if they had branded it the Nikon Gaussian Blur Zoom, it
> would have been decades ahead of it's time. ;-)
> Typed with big fingers on tiny keys