Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/25

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Subject: [Leica] Another ZM lens on the horizon
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Tue Mar 25 10:47:04 2008
References: <C40EA11A.99C89%mark@rabinergroup.com>


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
>
>
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