Hi Charlie, I very much 'knew' they were high performance beasts of lenses, but exactly like your sig line says - One Test is Worth a 1000 Opinions. There is nothing like the emotionally and intellectually enriching experience of actually putting one of these lenses to use. Simply buying into the words or images from someone else doesn't reach into your spirit or your soul in the same manner as seeing or watching those lenses affect the images you make yourself. Yeah Yeah - I know, I'm preaching to the choir here. LOL To use an analogy you might like Charlie - The Step Up from my Zeiss Pancolar to the Summicron/Elmarits was like going from a P-51 Mustang to a F-18 Hornet. They're both special stuff, but one brings a whole lot more to the flying game :-). Richard Looks like a fun and productive first day. I like the cat picture, too. The back porch I like a lot, too. Now you understand why we love these beasts so much: High performance lenses. :-) -- Charlie Falke _____ /\ | __/\__/------/__) |(____\/_________/ "One test result is worth | |/ `o one thousand expert opinions" - Wernher Von Braun 0 N4003M "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/