Re: Ricoh 21/3.5 (was: [Leica] The LUG is great!)

["Lee Yan Zhan" <yzlee@cyberway.com.sg>]

For those interested in the Ricoh GR 28/2.8, you will find the pictures
posted on this Japanese site inspiring.

http://www.kikuyacamera.com/grgallery/index.html

BTW, does anyone knows if there the address for the Ricoh Japan website.

Cheers,
Lee
Fellow LUGGER from Singapore


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> From: Mikiro Mori <arbos@silva.net>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Ricoh 21/3.5 (was: [Leica] The LUG is great!)
> Date: Sunday, April 11, 1999 6:07 AM
> 
> Hi, Hans
> 
> Congratulations on your acquisition of a Ricoh 28 mm GR lens.
> 
> I had a chance to obtain a newly released 21/3.5 Ricoh GR lens (LTM).  I
had
> no plan to get a super-wide lens, but I bought it just because it looked
so
> nice with M bodies and because it had a very clear and bright viewfinder.
> Further, it is surprisingly well built (I dare say it is 120% Leica
> quality!) and has a beautiful square metal hood.  I cannot tell you now
how
> optically good it is, but the latest issue of Asahi Camera reports that
it
> is unique in being 'squealingly' crispy (more so than the 28 mm version)
> with noticeable vignetting, which is rather *welcome* for creating
> "dramatic" images.  I wish more LUGgers in the world were accesible to
the
> Ricoh GR lenses!
> 
> Mikiro
> Strasbourg, Europe
> 
> --------------------------
> At 6:18 PM +0200 10/4/99, Hans Pahlen wrote:
> snip>>The Ricoh is an extremely rare lens here in Scandinavia,  and I
think
> it is amazing that I was able to find a sample on the used market in 
Hong
> Kong. It would not have been possible without the LUG society, that is
for
> sure! 　 Regards to all LUGers! Hans<<
> 
>