Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As I have no experience of Leica P/S cameras I´m inclined to agree - but what I actually meant was that the f:2.8 40mm Sonnar of my Rollei 35S is very close to my f:2 50mm Summicron qualitywise. Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen nyt myös Kameralehden juttuja suomeksi - ---------- > From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Small Cameras -Rollei 35 > Date: 24. lokakuuta 1998 18:26 > > At 08:05 PM 1998-10-24 +0100, Raimo Korhonen wrote: > >The Sonnar 2.8/40mm lens is very close to Leica quality. > > I splutter. A family illness prevented my attendance at the Zeiss > Historica Society AGM today, but please bear in mind that Zeiss is my first > love. Zeiss lenses are the standard to which Leica is striving and, by all > accounts, coming bloody close to meeting. But, still! The 3.5/40 Tessar > is a stunningly fine lens, and the 2.8/40 is an even better optic. These > lenses put to shame, by any optical standard, any lens used in any of > Leica's P&S embarrasments. > > Marc > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!