RE: [Leica] Buying R8,need advice on lenses conclusion

["Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter)" <peterk@lucent.com>]

There is also the Olympus Zuiko 180 F2.8 tha is one heck of a performer as
well. Not German, but exceptionally sharp albeit sans red dot.

Peter K

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mark Rabiner [mailto:mrabiner@concentric.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 2:53 PM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying R8,need advice on lenses conclusion


"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> I admit to not knowing a thing about the reflexes beyond what I read here
> and in reviews, and from the impressions I've gotten handling the R8...N
> cameras I know a little something about, owning a battered F, and having
at
> various times owned an F Photomic, and later an F3, and having shot with
my
> son's F5.....
> I will say that anyone but Erwin would be hard pressed to tell me that
> images I've gotten with my old F and the 180 2.8 ED would be bested by the
R
> lens equivalent.... : o) ..Just as they aren't going to be able to tell me
> that anything will beat what the M with the 35 SUmmilux ASPH can do..
> 
I'd hate to go up against Leica in the 180 department. This is the focal
length if I remember right commissioned in its first higher speed form
for the famous '32 Olympics for Leni R. So its a perhaps established
lineage. I would think there would be people who would think the Germans
"owned" that focal length. They'd be wrong though of course, the Nikon
you speak of is no doubt an enviable chunk of glass. And of course the
lens design could be the same.
Mark Rabiner