Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/16

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Subject: [Leica] Leica - the bargain brand (was: RE: Natureshots......Canon 500 F4)
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:37:27 -0700
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At 5:46 PM +0000 7/16/09, grduprey at mchsi.com wrote:
>
>Considering the performance of these OLD Leica lenses, I'd say not 
>even close to being outdated. ;-)
>
>
>Gene

In the very center performance of the 560 and 400/6.8 achromats is 
quite good, but it falls off rapidly toward the edges. The 500 Canon 
has better performance in a number of respects.

That said, the Telyts are bargains now and if you don't like 
autofocus are a lot better handling, especially off a tripod.

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