Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gene, I did have one problem in that respect, the front end dropped out of my Planar 1.7/50. The M42 Yashica lenses I still have actually seem to be of better build quality that those with CY mount. Cheers Douglas grduprey at mchsi.com wrote: > > 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 >>> >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >