Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:35 PM 1999-01-20, David Young wrote: > > For curiosity, is the PAM Britar also a German lens? Once you mentioned >that many aftermarket LTM lenses blew the Leitz contemporary lenses into >the weeds, what are the several horrid LTM lenses? > I recently bought several Nikkor rangefinder lenses (85/2 and 135/3.5) and >just got the prints back. To my surprise, they were very good. I would >say they were comparable to Leica shots. The PAM Britar is certainly an American lens (either US or Canada), but naught else seems to have been recorded about its provenance, and, yes, I would appreciate further information! The horrid LTM lenses include a slew of cheap German and Japanese lenses which appeared in the '50's, as well as a few French and Italian ones, as well. I've never been too impressed by the Postwar Ukrainian FED lenses I've tried, either, though opinions differ on these. Your two Nikkor lenses certainly should outperform anything Leitz was making at the same time: both Nikon designs are based on the epic Zeiss formulations of Ludwig Bertele, arguably the finest lens designer of his era. The 2/85, especially, is a most wonderful lens and is still a competitive design today. (The Russians continue to market the same design as the Jupiter-9, incidentally.) Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!