Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 80mmf1.4 R Lens (and some other...)
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:11:37 -0600

>I would not choose the 90 mm 2.0 R because the equivalent in M-serie is
>probably better.

Actually, it's the other way around. The R Summicron has a wonderful
reputation (and I can vouch for it!) and the M Summicron has never been
thought of as being all that exceptional. But I suppose that could be a
focusing issue as much as it is a design issue.

But I AM anxiously awaiting the R 90 Summicron ASPH APO. I might get that
instead of the 80 Summilux, since I already have the 75 Summilux.
- -- 

Eric Welch
St. Joseph, MO
http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch

"I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public wants. You play what
you want and let the public pick up on what you're doing - even if it does
take them fifteen, twenty years."
- -- Thelonious Monk