Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:25 PM 4/14/96 +0100, you wrote: >In message <9604142042.AA01416@giganet.tempo.att.com.tempo.att.com>, >Paul Krzyzanowski <paul@research.att.com> writes >When I first went shopping for m lenses I was told by dealers especially >that the newer Leica lenses were better than the older ones. Brian Bower >states in his books that certain Leica lenses were recomputed and >improved optically compared to their predecessors and advises the >purchase of the later incarnations in certain cases. What this doesn't >take into account is that these lenses may be used to make pictures >rather than test results and performance in one regard may not >correspond closely to performance in the other. I can't agree more. The only way to test a lens is to *use it* and see if you like the results. Of course, few people have the luxury of trying out a lens beforehand for any length of time. But its really the only meaningful test.