jem_kime

Following on from the reference to Claes Bjorn Larson's work and a web

page. He was one of leica's featured photographers this year at

Photokina and has a page dedicated to him on their web site:

http://www.leica-camera.com/markt/photokina/fotografen/larsen/index_e.

html

Gabe,

Let me know your address and I'll mail you a copy of my manual.

Jem

I had a close up look at these lenses whilst at photokina, they were

not available to the general public however.

They both looked lovely and the test picture I took with the 28 was

wonderfully crisp, (the 90mm shot suffered from camera shake).

The 28 is in fact the fastest lens of that focal length ever made for

rangefinder cameras, just.

Availability from late this year here in the UK.

Jem Kime

Sal's quite right of course, there could be much lost in the

instantaneous translation of Leica's thoughts and the English words

which slipped from their lips.

For my part, although Leica acknowledged the lesson learnt from the

delay taken with getting products to the market place, I felt that

this other lesson (of the R8 appearing large to many potential

customers), was another lesson learnt by them, that most people would

prefer a smaller camera.

I also agree with Sal wholeheartedly, the R8 is the most ergonomic

reflex Leica have ever made, if I could afford one I'd buy one, until

then I'll content myself with my SL2.

Jem