Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: >> I think you guys are pi**ing against the wind. I too have found the >> Kyocera/Zeiss lenses to be exceptionally good, especially for the >> going price. But I think we are in an argument here where anything >> that wasn't built in German by Leica is considered to be garbage, and >> anyone who likes anything other than Leica is a moron. I wish I were >> affluent enough to scoff anything other than Leica, but there are just >> too many outstanding images out there produced by lenses other than >> Leica to deduce that anything non-Leica is garbage. >> >> > > > NO I'm talking about using you eyeballs and looking at a obviously shoddily > made product. > With an awful ribbed cheap metal focusing collar. > Never seen one like that, except on older CZ lenses for Rollei, and they're milled from solid chunks of aluminium. > Cheap looking painted on numbers. > All mine are etched/engraved - on the Yashica/Kyoceras too > And priced higher than gorgeous Nikon or Canon glass. > Same price unless going for something exotic, sometimes less > Sigma made a better finished product. > This glass looked like Vivitar, Tokina or Tamron. > Tamron mainly. > > > Mark William Rabiner > markrabiner.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >