Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Skoparex (was:Re: M and R Future)
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:57:45 +0200

Where can we find this "laudation" of the Skoparex? For the sake of
accuracy I seem to recall that also "shit" was used as an optical term.
All the best!
Raimo
Photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen

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> From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:  M and R Future
> Date: 08. syyskuuta 1999 15:07
> 
<snip> 
> Tom Abrahamson's statements here and in VIEWFINDER in praise of the
> Skoparex were not "moderate", but outright laudation.  His pictures, as
> reproduced in VIEWFINDER, do not back this assertion up, in my
estimation.
> It has been suggested, and I have agreed, that I should look at some hard
> prints shot with this lens to avoid the quality-loss in mass production
of
> a newsletter.  So far, no one has offered such, so Tom and I must simply
> disagree on this point.
> 
> Again, the 15mm seems a decent $500 lens.  No more, no less.
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
> Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!