Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nor does Olympus, or any other manufacturer, make lenses that are across the board as durable as Leica lenses. - --------- In terms of all the recent discussion of Olympus v. Leica, this is the statement that rings the most true: Leica lenses, with the rare exception that slips through QC - and I've owned one - are built like brick s..t houses with windows of the finest crystal. Nothing compares in that regard: not Olympus, not Nikon, not Canon. Our children and grandchildren will be enjoying this equipment long after everything else has fallen apart. In this life-time, however, if you like the M for its size, quiet, and image quality, and you want a reflex as well, the OM3 is the M6 of reflex cameras. The lenses may not be "quite" as good as the M lenses, but they're damn good. Take a look at Gene Richards' shot of "Tom" emerging from a steam grate in Manhattan, or the photo on the cover of Cocaine Blue...and tell me that they would be any better had they been shot with a 21 2.8 leica lens, rather than with an OM3 and a 21 f 2 Zuiko..,.