Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/27

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Mail order screw mount lenses
From: "Richard W. Hemingway" <n5xrd@telepath.com>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 14:47:02 -0500

At 11:31 AM 5/27/96 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>On Mon, 27 May 1996, Eric Welch wrote:
>
>> We had a very long, extremely heated (thanks to a couple of non-Leica types)
>> discussion on Compuserve about these lenses that ran for about three months
>> this spring. Those lense are crap. They are made by some nobody
>> manufacturer, and Adorama is counting on people thinking they will be good
>> because they fit on a Leica. Nothing could be further from the truth. They
>> are not worth owning, from what the people who said they had seen them
>> working were saying. You'd be better spending an extra $400 or so and
>> getting a used 21. You only buy a lens like that once (or twice) in a
>> lifetime. Do it right.
>
>	That's interesting:  in the April `96 edition of Popular 
>Photography, both lenses were reviewed and were given quite high praise:  
>PP said that they would perform better than "most" lenses in their 
>class and the SQF data looked pretty good.   Did the posters have any 
>explanation for the discrepancy?
>
>Gary Toop
>
>
Do you believe everything PP has to say about Leica?????  Or competition
with them???

Dick Hemingway
Norman, OK


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