Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/18

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Inferior and superior
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 12:27:16 -0500

Mike,

Certainly, and to be clear, I would like to take the challenge.

Give me the power to see differences that exist and to avoid the temptation
to claim those that don't.

:-)

Jon

> However, other companies know how to make excellent lenses too, and in
> some cases make lenses that are as good as Leica's, or better. So "Leica
> snobbery" is not necessarily always justified when it becomes so
> absolute that one becomes willing to dismiss or denigrate every other
> optical company in the world. Zeiss, Nikon, Canon, Pentax, Olympus,
> Rodenstock, and Schneider (among others) have all made some superlative
> lenses as well.
>
> --Mike
>