Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2022/03/18

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Subject: [Leica] Leica/Sigma/minolta/schneider etc cheap japanese lenses. oh. wait. chinese lenses
From: mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:52:40 -0700
References: <00B4DFC1-C3AB-4F9A-8E5A-BD49695DBB00@teleport.com>

as ddd discovered others Nikon in his case, TT/a and 7/a and lll make fine, 
affordable, innovative lenses outside wetzlar solms midland 
Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 18, 2022, at 8:50 PM, Mark Kronquist <mak at teleport.com> wrote:
> 
> ?Beware of what?  M Rokkors the 90 made in Germany? Leica has been filling 
> the li e for almost fifty years with products it made no sense to make yet 
> which users demanded.  
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 18, 2022, at 8:05 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG <lug at 
>> leica-users.org> wrote:
>> 
>> ?Beware!
>> 
>> From Dan Wells, one of the most balanced commentator on photographic
>> equipment today, on Luminous Landscape, writing about Kickstarter projects
>> (where you have cheap Chinese lenses rebranded in German names and sold 
>> for
>> 3-4 times the price on the platform) and rebranded lenses in general:
>> 
>> 
>> *We?ve even seen this type of rebranding between high-end manufacturers,
>> although not involving Kickstarter. Leica has rebranded the Sigma ART
>> 24-70mm f2.8, and is selling it for more than twice the price of the 
>> Sigma.
>> Sigma is a high-end lens manufacturer, and that particular lens has an
>> excellent reputation (I?ve used it extensively and spoken about it here ?
>> the reputation is deserved). Sigma will happily sell you that lens in L
>> mount for $1099. If you want a version that says Leica on it, that one 
>> will
>> be $2795. *
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>> 
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