Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Kyocera also made the excellent 80~200 Vario Elmar R lens for Leica. Nothing wrong with Kyocera lenses, except they are now out of the business. However, I never thought much of the construction as far a ruggedness of their Contax Zeiss offerings. Gene -------------- Original message from Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>: -------------- > And what, pray, is so bad about Kyocera (aka Yashica) lenses? > > In a relation performance to price, they knocked the socks off quite a > few of the bigger manufacturers. > > Their CY mount 2.8/55 Macro is close to being spectacular, and the > 3.5/21mm is up there with the best. The 2.8/135 Zeiss (possibly Kyocera > - not sure) is also a superb lens. > > Yashica's earlier fixed-lens RFs (GSN (1.7/45), 35 GX (1.7/40), etc.) > delivered superb results, even wide open > > Why does everybody still knock Yashica? - I grew up with their SLRs > (Electro-X, FR, FX-D) and Contax SLRs (RTS, 137MD) long before I got my > first Leica and always got great results. > > Douglas > > > > > > Mark Rabiner wrote: > >> Although I now shoot Leica R8 and 9, I previously shot a lot with the > >> Contax RX and RTSII. The on-camera lens was always the Carl Zeiss > >> Planar 50/1.4. Back then Carl Zeiss Germany and Japan used Schott > >> billets for their lens blanks. > >> > > > > > > Except that there was no Carl no Germany you were shooting with a Kyocera > > lens which is why it cost 200 bucks and not 2000. > > > > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > >