Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:32 PM 2/6/01 -0800, Lucian Chis wrote: >Has anybody used the Kinoptik long lenses ona Leicaflex? Heitz has a bunch >or them >(super priced of course) in different mounts now besides Alpa. >Comments? > I had a 100/2 and a 150/2.8 Kinoptik for my Alpa. They were very very sharp but V-E-R-Y prone to flare. The coating was nothing to write home about. I actually sold these lenses for the simple reason that they were difficult to use in "general" photography. You had to be very careful about where the sun, lights, other bright objects, were. It wasn't worth the hassle. Jim