Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/05/27

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: Mail order screw mount lenses
From: Gary J Toop <gtoop@uoguelph.ca>
Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 11:31:29 -0400 (EDT)



On Mon, 27 May 1996, Eric Welch wrote:

> We had a very long, extremely heated (thanks to a couple of non-Leica types)
> discussion on Compuserve about these lenses that ran for about three months
> this spring. Those lense are crap. They are made by some nobody
> manufacturer, and Adorama is counting on people thinking they will be good
> because they fit on a Leica. Nothing could be further from the truth. They
> are not worth owning, from what the people who said they had seen them
> working were saying. You'd be better spending an extra $400 or so and
> getting a used 21. You only buy a lens like that once (or twice) in a
> lifetime. Do it right.

	That's interesting:  in the April `96 edition of Popular 
Photography, both lenses were reviewed and were given quite high praise:  
PP said that they would perform better than "most" lenses in their 
class and the SQF data looked pretty good.   Did the posters have any 
explanation for the discrepancy?

Gary Toop


In reply to: Message from Eric Welch <ewelch@gp.magick.net> (Re: Mail order screw mount lenses)