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Subject: [Leica] New Leica 18mm and a Flash!
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu Feb 19 11:30:49 2009

And then say
"which is better the Leica or the Zeiss?"
At a thousand bucks a pop.


Mark William Rabiner



> From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:46:54 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Conversation: [Leica] New Leica 18mm and a Flash!
> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Leica 18mm and a Flash!
> 
> Except that if it was a Zeiss lens it would also cost at least $2895.00.
> 
> I've used Zeiss glass all my life. For the Hasselblad system.
> 
> Its not Kyocera and its not Cosina.
> 
> If Leica had a line of glass made by Cosina or some very nice Japanese
> company compare it against that. And would be priced to match.
> 
> 
> Mark William Rabiner
> 
> 
> 
>> From: mehrdad <msadat@gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:21:44 -0800
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] New Leica 18mm and a Flash!
>> 
>> i really doubt it will be much better than the ziess, after all ziess have
>> been making 18mm lens for a long time, but it seems outside pressure is
>> making leica move, the ziess 18 was a huge success with the leica owners,
>> super sharp, small and "affordable", never the less i am Happy they are
>> rolling out more m lenses. the performance of the lens i will wait and 
>> see,
>> i am hoping you all did not forget the m8 rollout where users discoverd 
>> the
>> acidental IR filters needed to use the camera, so from now on i let the
>> truth be told
>> 
>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Frank Filippone
>> <red735i@earthlink.net>wrote:
>> 
>>> Well, that is 3 times the cost of the Zeiss 18.......  I guess it is not 
>>> a
>>> $7K lens, so that is good....
>>> 
>>> We need to see and hear about comparisons....... On M8 AND on film!
>>> 
>>> Did someone say that Erwin has an article out on the Leica 18?  I went
>>> looking and could not find it.....
>>> 
>>> Frank Filippone
>>> red735i@earthlink.net
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> OpticsUSA of Boston says $2895.00.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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>>  -------------------------------------
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