Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 1996 09:29:17 -0700 We've lived with Minolta making them for years. The new 70-180 2.8 is made by Leica in Germany. That's all I'd care about if I was buying Leica zooms. Sigma makes one zoom. The 28-70. Panasonic must be making some parts for the other one, the 70-210 or whatever. It's still identical to the one Minolta made for Leica for years. Actually, according to my books, the 28-70 zoom was discontinued because of the ridicule Leica suffered at the hands of the press when it came out at 5x or 6x the Sigma price. If so, this would mean that what are being sold now are old stocks. And the 70-210 was supposedly optically recomputed a couple of years ago, although it still has the same number of elements in the same configuration as when it was a Minolta design. I think I got both of these factoids from "Leica Lens Practice", although one of them might have come from the "Leica R Compendium."