Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens Questions
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 03:07:02 -0500

Adam Bridge jotted down the following:

> I have a 90mm Leica lens from Canada.
> 
> Can someone fill me in on this lens? I see other Leica branded lenses that
> come from Canada. What's the deal with these? A lesser variety?

All Canadian lenses from Leica are notoriously terrible performers.  You
basically get better image quality from a scratched Vivitar or fogged Kenko.
Better send it to me, I'll even pay the postage so you can get yourself a
*real* lens.

M.

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