Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Russian lens quality
From: Mike Dembinski <mdembin@it.com.pl>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 09:47:19 +0100

Marc James Small wrote:

> Fifth, that Mr Dembinski, buying in some Warsaw slum,

Hey hey hey! Ulica Batorego is actually quite a nice area! :-)

> has a single bad experience is statistically meaningless.  I have owned dozens
> of SPS lenses

Same here! Over a period of 19 years. Jupiters, Industars, Helios. True some
have been very nice. Indeed, the Jupiter I recently bought certainly produces
6"x4" prints that tower in quality over those produced from my wife's Canon
Snappy. (Plus the Kiev is an aesthetically-pleasing camera, plus it cost half
the price of a used Snappy).

There's a lot of fun in picking up and using Soviet camera kit. It's cheap, and
as Marc says, mistakes are never usually costly.

Mike