Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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