Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/27

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Subject: Re: Russian 20mm lens for Leica
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 21:47:48 -0500

At 01:32 PM 11/27/97 -0800, Patrick Sobalvar wrote:
>The best things about it are that it's small, it's cheap, and it performs
>surprisingly well.  Very convenient to carry around on the camera.  I use
>mine a heck of a lot.  The worst things about it are the inconsistent
>quality of manufacture, the finder, setting the aperture, and (I suppose
>for M6 owners) that the TTL meter doesn't work well with it.

A fair summary, though mine meters well with my M6.  

The lens, incidentally, isn't related at all to either of the Biogon
designs.  It is a Topogon clone.

Marc


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