Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Helios 85/1.5?history?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2001 09:42:05 -0400

At 11:00 AM 10/2/01 +0200, Mârtiòð ZelmenisZW5pcw== wrote:
>
>You're taking  a big risk - Russian made lenses may have got rather good
>glass, but mechanicaly they're awful - and no-one wants to repair them.

This is far too broad a statement.  Many SPS lenses are mechanically fine,
others are poorly built -- it is simply a matter of picking and choosing.

And there are many, many repair folks in the US who will work on SPS lenses
and cameras.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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