Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/27

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Subject: Re: Angieneux Zoom for the R.... -Reply
From: Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@a1.nl>
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 18:24:03 +0000

On 27 May 97 at 6:11, Dave Stedman wrote:

> For whatever its worth, my son and I own 5 Angieneux lens.  A
> 35-70, a 70-210, ea. 45-90's, and a 180 f2.3 APO.  All are three
> cam.  Also I own a late 35-70 Leica zoom, a late 70-210 Leica
> zoom, and a 70-180 APO zoom.  Of all of these, clearly the 70-180
> APO is the winner, but not by a large margin.
> 
> My impression of the Angieneux lens is that they are extremely
> good.  They are real sleepers, and thus getting hard to find.  This
> of course is going to drive the prices up.  

Can you confirm that the 180/2.3 does not need IR-focus correction?
I located one in FD mount for a nice price, it seems as if average
used price is well over US$1000 (true?).
What are the weight/size specifications btw?
Thanks!

- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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