Comment in a mag review of Leica lens

RichA wrote:

Sorry, but camera weigh has never meant I left the camera at home.


Then you've never owned a medium format or large format camera have you? As
much as I like the 50-200 zuiko lens, there are times when it stays in the
car just because I don't feel like hauling it with me. If the 40-150 had
the optical sharpness of the 50-200 wide open, I'd have bought it even at
the same price to save the weight.

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Stacey

Rich writes:

First paragraph; 75mm f2 Summicron review:
"This lens is all brass, aluminum and glass,
no plastic." Obviously, Leica hasn't seen
the utility in using plastic in a $2600 lens.
How deluded can they be?
-Rich

Perhaps just realistic about the tooling cost, which might well
increase the price of a low-volume item even further.

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On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:40:20 -0400, Stacey wrote:

RichA wrote:

Sorry, but camera weigh has never meant I left the camera at home.


Then you've never owned a medium format or large format camera have you?

I did own a medium format, but at the time, I was shooting black and
white and a 35mm with Tech-pan turned out better images than a medium
format with 100ASA black and white from Kodak or Ilford. I never shot
Tech-Pan in medium format, I figured it would be too hard to develop
uniformly.
-Rich

On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:10:15 -0400,
wrote:

Rich writes:

First paragraph; 75mm f2 Summicron review:
"This lens is all brass, aluminum and glass,
no plastic." Obviously, Leica hasn't seen
the utility in using plastic in a $2600 lens.
How deluded can they be?
-Rich

Perhaps just realistic about the tooling cost, which might well
increase the price of a low-volume item even further.

Trust me, I know people who buy high end optics (not cameras) and
they will not put up with plastic. Part of the reason goes to
aesthetics, but part is functional.
-Rich