Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:06 PM 2/9/98 -0500, you wrote: >Never mind cost, collectability and the nicer focusing ring - what about >optical performance? If anything, the newer one is better. But I suspect the difference is so small that you would be better buying the latter. Not only that, but I hear the original lens had some assembly problems, and some of them fell apart. I can't testify that's true. But it's such a great lens, there is no way in my opinion to justify the extra expense, and to deny some poor collector the joy of owning one of the older models. ========== Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch God is REAL, unless explicitly declared INTEGER.