Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeremy Kime wrote: > > Cosina are in fact bigger/better players in the camera business than > I knew, they've made both camera and lenses for Nikon's bottom of the > range SLR (EM presumably) and also lenses for both Vivitar and Tamron. > So although the stuff won't be Leica quality, it won't be rubbish > either. > I beg to differ. Vivitar, Tamron and the cheap-ass, entry-level Nikons are not exactly high quality optics. You could probably get better picture with a cleaned-out Pepsi bottle than many Vivitar lenses... M. - -- Martin Howard, Grad. Schl. for Human-Machine Interaction, | HMI/IKP, Linkoping University, SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden.| Just Tel: +46 13 28 5741; Fax: +46 28 2579; ICQ: 354739 | say "DOOH" E-mail: marho@ikp.liu.se; www.iav.ikp.liu.se/staff/marho/ +------------