RE: [Leica] 90mm

["B. D. Colen" <BDColen@earthlink.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Marc James
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> Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 9:26 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 90mm
>
>
> At 11:38 PM 1999-02-01 +0000, Christer Almqvist wrote:
> >As my Leica dealer once said: "All Leica lenses are good enough
> >for most of us, and do not beleive that later versions are always better
> >than earlier ones; many changes have been made to reduce manufacturing
> >costs."   (..... and to increase selling prices at the same time???)
>
>
> I used to say the same.  And then I started READING what Erwin Puts was
> writing and realized, egg on my face and a blush on my youthful cheeks,
> that I was wrong!
>
> Newer lenses are better.  I have proof:  a 3.4/135 APO-Televid
> and a 2.8/90
> Elmarit.  I will buy the 2/90 APO ASPH as soon as it appears.
> Newer lenses
> ARE better, and, yes, the difference is noticeable, even to slum-gully
> photogs like me and thee.  Jim Brick and Ted Grant and Eric Welch and Tina


> Buy new.  Enjoy the old, but, for REAL quality, buy new.
>
> Marc
>
Marc - I would suggest that it's a bit harsh to put it in terms of "for REAL
quality, buy new." Isn't the point, "for the latest advances in modern
optical design, buy new, but if you are satisfied with images the quality of
those produced by the likes of HCB, W. Eugene Smith, the Capas, etc. etc.
etc., you can do just fine with the older lenses?" :-)

B. D.