Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/04/02

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Subject: [Leica] Buying a Leica lens?
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 08:53:35 -0500
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On Apr 1, 2012, at 11:01 PM, John McMaster wrote:

> A lot of pro's use (and are happy with) the Canon 16-35, those I know who 
> are fussy about IQ do not have a good thing to say about it...

the sample I had
(for a brief 10 days)
was the worst lens I ever owned
by any measure
at any focal length or f stop
for any format
(and I really wanted to love it).

The II version of this lens
does receive a lot of good reviews.
They apparently improved the corner sharpness;
although the barrel distortion, below 24 mm, apparently remains.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
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