David As always a detailed, informed and well reasoned response. I can agree with all of your criteria but would add I'd be looking for a good deal of compatibility with existing R lenses. I think that may have been implicit in your response. All the best, Chris B ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www3.telus.net/~telyt/lrflex.htm Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/