Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/05

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Subject: Re: Japanese "M" mount
From: "Lee Yan Zhan" <yzlee@cyberway.com.sg>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 11:57:13 +0800

Doc,

> Interesting that this subject has come up.  Just a couple weeks ago I
posed a
> question on the AOL Leica board about the Adorama lenses...got a few
replies
> but none from anyone who actually owns one.  The very lowest price I've
seen
> anywhere on a used Super-Angulon f/4 was just under $1000, without a
finder.
>  I so rarely use this focal length that I'm seroiusly prepared to suffer
the
> mockings of Leicaphiles everywhere, in the interest of obtaining the 21mm
> f/2.8 that POP Photo (if you can believe them considering the huge
multi-page
> ad that Adorama buys every month) gave a fairly decent review to...at
$799 inc
> luding a finder and a lenshood.  If anyone here has actually owned and/or
> shot with this lens, I'd appreciate hearing from you...even if you want
to
> e-mail me rather than risk exposure (oh, what an awful pun) as an
heretic.
>  The POP test of the Adorama lenses URL is
> aol://4344:190.ppc60451.2172618.514914992  (but I don't know if you have
to
> be an AOL subscriber to access it).

I just came back from a trip to Tokyo and I found the Super Avenon 28/3.5
and Adorama lenses at a popular camara shop in Shinjuku for less than US500
new.

Regards,

Lee