Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] G Zoom - Contax can do it and Leica can't!
From: Eric Welch <ewelch@neteze.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 20:27:30 -0800

sometime around 12/16/99 12:32 PM, Greg.Chappell@bankofamerica.com at
Greg.Chappell@bankofamerica.com was heard  to write:

> I can't imagine anyone who owns any of the 1.4 or 1.0 or even 2.0 Leica
> lenses willing to accept slow zooms just for the sake of owning a zoom lens.

Why? I own a zoom lens becuase it offers advantages that only zoom lenses
give. Is that owning one simply becuase it's a zoom? Do I own single focal
length lenses only because they're single focal length lenses, or becuase by
being single focal length they offer me things zooms can't?

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Eric Welch
Carlsbad, CA
http://www.neteze.com/ewelch

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