Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/16

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Yasuhara Leica Clone [Vaporware?]
From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 09:31:19 +0100

Robert,
I managed to buy one of these cameras from a friend in Japan who ordered 3!
They are dissappointing, the quality seems rather poor, way off Minolta CLE 
and the Konica standards, perhaps inferior to the 'Voigtlander' too.
The leds in the viewfinder are all but invisible unless eye squinting is 
carried out and the background is appropriately suitable.
However it does have a cute 50's 'retro' look and does offer a 1:1 
viewfinder, the frame lines are slightly fuzzy though. It feels 
insubstantial but then it wasn't that expensive.

best wishes,

Jem

- -----Original Message-----
From:	R. Carter [SMTP:carter@andromeda.rutgers.edu]


The Nov/Dec 1999 issue of Photo Techniques, which arrived
today, has a "Recent News" (i.e. rewritten press release)
story covering what it calls two "retro" cameras.  They
are the Voigtlaender Bessa-L, and the Yasuhara T981,