Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 8:00 pm +0200 18/5/99, Hans Pahlen wrote: > >WHY????? > Jim, I can only answer for myself. I prefer the SA 21 before the 21 asph >because of it's compact size, as well as I like the Ricoh 28 for the same >reason. Bodies with these lenses are very easy to pick up or drop into the >photo bag without fiddling. Earlier I used a Elmarit 28 (second generation), >and I can tell you that the Ricoh is as least as good, in fact better on >large openings. All right, the current Elmarit 28 is better AND compact. >But I decided for the Ricoh, that cost 1/3 of the Leica price, and invested >the saved funds in a trip to Italy for me and my wife. There it is. Hans I share the answer with Hans. I bought a Ricoh 21mm LTM, because the 21 mm Elmarit asph, which should be FAR superior to the Ricoh, is too big with its retrofocus design (and too expensive for me). I had long been interested in smaller SA 21 with noticeable vignetting, which, as a used one, costs almost twice as much as the Ricoh. And,... I personally love products which engineers made for pleasure. :-) People will go GAGA when they see somthing new to them! ^_^ Leicalement GAGA, Mikiro Mori Strasbourg, Europe http://members.tripod.com/arbos3/cigogne/index.html