Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/25

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Subject: Re: R Lenses?
From: Bill Grimwood <bgrim@garply.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 15:23:33 -0600

At 01:22 PM 12/24/96 -0700, you wrote:
>LUGs,
>
>I was informed a couple of days ago that R lenses are not selling very well.
>If so, what is the reason for this phenomenon. Certainly, the R lenses are
>very good optically. Leica/Leitz put a lot of effort into their development. 
>
>I was also told by the same person, a salesman at a Leica dealer, that 3-cam
>lenses do not work as well in SL/SL2 cameras. He has a lot of two-cam
>lenses. Perhaps, the two-cam lenses are not moving very fast either.
>
Three cam lenses work fine on my SL's and my SL2.  Of course R camed lenses
will not work on the SL.  I wouldn't put much faith in what he said.

Bill Grimwood