Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well - actually I was wrong stating that I don't own Russian/Ukrainian cameras - I've still got FT-2, a panoramic camera that produces 12 frames on a 36 exp. roll. Theoretically it is a good camera - unobtrusive, for it doesn't resemble a camera at all - but due to faulty materials the spring that drives the cylinder with lens does not operate properly, resulting in uneven exposures, if I use other shutter speeds than 1/100 (it's also got 1/200 and 1/400). All the people around who own the same type of cameras are experiencing the same problem to an extent. I am glad you are content with what you've got for your M6 - but happily those lenses don't have too many moving parts, and it's no rocket science to manufacture a (lens) barrel - cylinder moving inside a cylinder. It's a different question when it comes to moving parts of an automatic diaphragm. Yours Martin > >Well, it was just my experience - you're right, it depends largely on >choice - but then even meticulous choice may be a bad guide. If you take >such risks, you may end up with lenses that are badly constructed, liable to >break easily because of it - and of bad materials as well. And it doesn't >show on the first moment. It's just too easy to end up with a lemon. Well, I've been buying and using SPS lenses and cameras for more than a decade and have had a failure rate of around 10%. The other 90% have worked well and the optical quality of the lenses is astonishingly good. I regularly use Russian glass on my M6. Cuique sua res, but it is dangerous to make a broad and general statement based solely upon our own experience. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html