Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/08/01

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Subject: [Leica] Are the super wide R lenses the
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 01:26:10 -0400 (EDT)

Vick Ko wrote:

>Are the super wide R lenses the "sleepers" of the Leica line?
>
>Are they good?  Better than their M equivalents?
>
>ie:
>15/2.8 R
>15/3.5 R
What equivalents?

>19/2.8 R
late version

>28/2.8 R
late version

The R lenses being older designs are not up to the spectacular performance 
of the latest M lenses but among SLR lenses these are top quality.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com