Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/11

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Leica-Users List Digest V1 #123
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:46:36 -0700

At 10:57 AM 7/11/96 -0400, you wrote:


>The new Vario-Elmar R f4.0 80-200mm zoom is reported by Color Foto  in its
>latest issue to be nearly as good as the famed APO 70-180mm f2.8 Vario
>zoom at a third of the price!!   If Leica outsources some or all of the

Thanks for the confirmatin. I heard of this lens on Compuserve. Now I know
it's true. A third the price, that makes it just under $2,000. For a lens
that performs even close to the the 70-180 f2.8 Apo Zoom must be made by the
likes of Contax! 

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Eric Welch
Grants Pass (OR) Daily Courier
NPPA Region 11 JIB chair

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