Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:44 AM 5/18/2001 -0500, Dante A. Stella wrote: >Good point about the curvature. The Canon is a Sonnar copy, but better >executed than the Soviet copy (and without benefit of the Zeiss tooling!) > That's a pretty broad brush to use to describe a lens which was in production for 45 years. In general, yes, the mounts on Nikon and Canon LTM lenses are far better made than those on the Soviet/Post-Soviet lenses. But there is generally not much to choose between the glass, SPS QC being its customary concern. However, the late Jupiter production has better mounts than the earlier lenses and most of these lenses are multi-coated. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!