Originally posted by boriscleto You mean the Leica on my Lumix isn't the same quality as an actual Elmarit?
Well, I dunno, I think they're pretty nice, actually. Elmarit=Not Elmar, but nice. These actually theoretically come of a real partnership between Leica and Panasonic that I think means it's actually the very same glass as the Leica versions got. Wherever they actually made it. (taking out her own little FZ-7 guy. Probably time for a battery charge by now.
) I kind of got a kick out of the nameplate, "Hey, I'm finally shooting Leica. Kind of.
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Anyway, in this case there's at least some token Leica involvement in the glass. Though I think Leica may be out of that partnership now, they at least bailed from the 4/3rds standard, apparently.
As long as I like it, really. Got one of the ones that doesn't try to go very wide: I think it has generally-good qualities.