Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:28 AM 4/17/96 PST, Eric Welch wrote: >The main reason is cheap lenses. Around here, you can pick up a 28mm lens for >a couple hundred, or so this guy claims on CIS. And some 35mm lenses are >pretty cheap too. Ah, and much more to the point: you can pick up superb Russian lenses for one heck of a lot less than the Canon and Nikon lenses, which now have that (ugh!) collector's patina: 5.6/20 Russar MR-2 (Zeiss Jena Topogon clone) $US 400 w/VF 6/28 Orion-15 (Zeiss Jena Topogon clone) 250 2.8/35 Jupiter-12 (Zeiss Jena Biogon clone) 175 2/50 Jupiter-8 (Zeiss Jena Sonnar clone) 125 1.5/50 Jupiter-3 (Zeiss Jena Sonnar clone) 175 2/85 Jupiter-9 (Zeiss Jena Sonnar clone) 150 4/135 Jupiter-11 (Zeiss Jena Sonnar clone) 100 All are fine lenses, all are available coated, and, frankly, why screw around with Canon and Nikon when cheap Zeiss lenses are available? Of course, (sigh) there ARE folks who like dim, low-contrast, fuzzy pictures ... Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!