Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] (OT) 35-70 mm zoom for G2
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 12:37:59 -0700

Christer Almqvist wrote:
> 
> Issue 92 of the French Réponses Photo has a short story on the new Vario
> Sonnar 35-70 mm for the Contax G2. It is a real zoom, not a tri-focal lens.
><Snip> 

To be obnoxious and say I told you so I predicted this on the list here a year
ago and so did Leica wherefore the Tri Elmar.
I'm going to try to ask Herr Cohen in Chicago if my theory was right of the Tri
Elmar being a preemptive response against the burgeoning Contax zoom; if he
speaks English.
Mark Rabiner