Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/17

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Q: new lenses for Leica R
From: "Dr. Joseph Yao" <joseph@yao.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 22:40:07 +0800

on 17/2/01 1:48 AM, Da-Jie Lin at dajielin@home.com wrote:

> As indicated in the new issue (2/2001) LFI, page 33.  One wide angle
> zoom and a successor to the 15mm Super Elmar will show up soon.  I
> wanted to convert to Nikon system (I have several R lenses and two Nikon
> AF-S at this moment)  due to Leica's cancellation of my orders of the
> 35-70 ASPH lens but this new news makes me think again. Any further
> information would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dajie
> 

Dajie,

This is exactly what I did today.  I bought a Nikon AF-S 28-70/2.8 zoom
since Leica could not offer me something similar.  It was not exactly a lot
of money, it was still the money Leica could have made.... Sad.

Joseph