Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi, Marc - I may be misreading - or miswriting! - something, but I think that my point was that they are, in fact, excellent lenses, and are rated as such by Erwin. (Certainly their build-quality isn't up to Leica standards, but what does one expect for the price?) BTW - I was quoting someone else who said that they are in the 'sorta good class," and by saying that " they are hardly in the sorta good class," I was saying that they are much much better than 'sorta good.' B. D. Marc James Small wrote: > > At 10:48 AM 10/20/01 -0400, B. D. Colen wrote: > >Cosina's lenses are hardly in the sorta good class. They are, in fact, > >in the excellent class. As good as the newest Leica lenses? No. But if > >one believes Erwin The Great, and others, a number of the Cosina lenses > >are as good or better than some of their Leica counterparts from the 60s > >and 70s - which, I would bet, the majority of LUGers use. And they are > >sure as hell better than the - by today's standards - junk from the 40s > >and early 50s that many people shoot with. > > BD > > Erwin evaluates the Cosina lenses as substantially better than you > indicate. You might want to read his evaluations. > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs 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