> Then there's always the Olympus 35 SP rangefinder, with the Zuiko-G > 1.7 lens, widely considered the poor man's Leica, because of it's > great optical performance.
It may be a "great lens," but the coatings on it are so poor it's almost useless IMHO. I'll take a Canon QL-17 GIII any day (and, in fact, did). Best coatings, by rank: Pentax & Zeiss Leica Canon Nikon Olympus (*sucked* until about 1988, when it caught up to C/N) --Mike
