Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/27

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Mail order screw mount lenses
From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <n5xrd@telepath.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 18:31:07 -0500

At 04:01 PM 5/27/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>On Mon, 27 May 1996, Richard W. Hemingway wrote:
>
>> >	That's interesting:  in the April `96 edition of Popular 
>> >Photography, both lenses were reviewed and were given quite high praise:  
>> >PP said that they would perform better than "most" lenses in their 
>> >class and the SQF data looked pretty good.   Did the posters have any 
>> >explanation for the discrepancy?
>> >
>> >Gary Toop
>> >
>> >
>> Do you believe everything PP has to say about Leica?????  Or competition
>> with them???
>> 
>> Dick Hemingway
>> Norman, OK
>
>	Of course not!!!!!  Surely it is possible to wonder why their 
>tests showed the lens to be OK/good - a finding which seems to be consistent 
>with others reported in the LHSA newsletter according to Curt Miller - 
>when some users have found them to be crap. _Many_ things could explain 
>the discrepancy, one of which could of course be that PP is unreliable.
>
>I hope you don't leap off of cliffs the way you leap to conclusions! <g>
>
>Gary Toop
>
SPLAT!

Dick Hemingway
Norman, OK