Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >