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From: John A. Prosper <prosper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] looking for an affordable (used) 24mm shift
>On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, John Hudson wrote:
>|-----Original Message-----
>|From: Jan Steinman <jans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>|To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>|Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 12:04 PM
>|Subject: Re: [OM] looking for an affordable (used) 24mm shift
>|
>|
>|> When I was there, he had in his case a
>|>Zuiko 180/2 mounted on a Leica body!
>|
>|Why would anyone want to put a Zuiko lens on a Leica body?
>
>Probably because the equivalent Leica gear costs five times as much!
>:-)
As an owner of both systems I would no more put a Leica lens on an Olympus
body than I would put an Olympus lens on a Leica body. Each system is of
sufficient high quality to warrant using its own combination of bodies and
lenses and I don't see any advantage of mixing and matching. A photo taken
with a Leica lens on an Olympus body, or vice versa, is neither a Leica or
an Olympus photo and I don't see how a mix and match could improve upon a
photo taken wholly with one system or the other. Looking at each system in
isolation I suspect that the died in the wool Leica fraternity would look at
the mix and match with utter disdain and likewise the Olympus fraternity! Is
there anyone out there who sees anything more than novelty value in this mix
and match combination?
jh
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