Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/08

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Subject: [Leica] BESSA R3A or M7
From: jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier)
Date: Sat Jan 8 09:48:09 2005
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  Aren't we comparing apples and oranges here? Zeiss is only offering 
one high speed lens (85/2). I would be surprised if Zeiss couldn't 
design an f/2 or f/2.8 lens that could at least equal Leica's faster -- 
and thus a heck of a lot harder to design -- offerings. If there were 
f1.4 50s and 35s, then I would be paying attention. If there were an 
f/2 25 or 21, then I would be ordering.

John Collier

On Jan 8, 2005, at 8:59 AM, Jeffery Smith wrote:

> Zeiss has taken the remarkable stand in stating (in Q&A fashion) that
> it believes that the lenses will outperform those already on the
> market (I assume that they were talking about Leica et al). That's a
> pretty big statement to back up.
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