Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:36 AM 9/5/97 +0000, Danny Gonzalez wrote: >Now I may trly be out of my mind but if an aftermarket company were to offer a truly >great performing 75 2.0, that was smaller, lighter and less expensive than the >non-existent Leica equivalent, I really might buy it. No, I probably would buy it. Something close has been on the market for years, the 2/85 Jupiter-9 manufactured by one of several Russian plants. It's a clone of the old Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar. Mine doesn't perform quite as well as my 2/90 Summicron, but, then, the Russian lens is available for $100 or so ... Marc Marc James Small Cha Robh Bas Fir, Gun Ghras Fir! FAX: +540/343-7315