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Subject: Re: [OM] 100mm/f2
From: ONLYOLYBW@xxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 1998 23:10:16 EDT
In a message dated 6/19/98 7:56:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
schloss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< I am still in the dark as to the reason, or common-sense(!) explanation
 for the 85mm lens desirability and/or supremacy. Is it just a fad, esp. in
 the U.S., or is there some very important point that I'm missing? >>

Hi Denton,
I have absolutely no idea.  But, I think I heard somewhere that the 85mm and a
24mm are the two prime lenses used by Photojournalist?  If the big boys are /
have developed such fast 85mm's, then they have a market willing to pay the
price.
BW

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