Stewart Pinkerton wrote:
On 11 Sep 2005 22:18:51 GMT, wrote:

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AFAIK good camera equipment doesn't have the wide variety in price that
audio equipment does, especially for equipment that is identical in
performance.

Most of the Japanese equipment is fairly close in performance and
price, because the prices asked do not support the kind of engineering
and manufacturing quality that a company like Leica strives for.

Typical Leica snob attitude, ignoring the basic fact that the serious
players, Nikon and Canon, have massive R&D departments, and turn out
lenses which are far beyond the capability of a tiny 'garden shed'
operation like Leitz. Unless of course you count the 'Leica' lenses
used on Panasonic digital cameras....................

But the lenses they COULD make are not the lenses they DO make. It's
simply not possible to make a lens that sells for $400 equal to one
that sells for $2400, when the glass itself of the higher-priced lens
costs $1000! Leica's glass and mechanical perfection cannot be matched
at a lower price point. It's not physically possible. Canon or Nikon
could not sell their lenses at Leica price points.

Anybody COULD make Leica-quality lenses IF they used Leica-quality
materials and designs, but...they DON'T. If they did, they'd cost about
the same. Considering what a lot of high-end audio gear costs, Leica
stuff is a bargain.

Indeed, a quite recent AP test noted that the new Canon 60mm f2.8
macro lens was essentially perfect, and was the best lens that the
reviewer had ever tested.

Check out the 100mm APO-Marco-Elmarit-R. It's essentially perfect
(diffraction-limited).

http://www.leica-camera.com/imperia/...kolumne/12.pdf


I have demonstrated the high quality level of Leitz/Leica optics to my
own satisfaction and that of others.

You have picked a preference where actual differences exist. Most of the
claimed audio differences don't meet that criteria, they are sonically
indistinguishable when one uses only one's ears.

You mean ALL CD players and ALL ampls sound the same? Hogwash.

How would you know? Your audio comparisons are analogous to comparing
lenses which have been smeared with vaseline.

Do I detect an insult there?


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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering