Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]deg wrote: > > Can someone fill me in on these lenses (maybe I missed a thread)? Are these > Leica bayonet mount lense, or a screw mount and adapter? Also, I have read > the line "put the Leica rf with 28 in my pocket" and that perked me up. > > Thanks in advance, > Bob > Dear Bob: In the past communist world, bayonet Leica was clone only to China; a women of Mao want a camera, and so was build a M3 like Red Flag - no more 100 ex build. Orion was a socialist copy of 6,3/28 Leica screw lens; is a very good one, like the Russar 20 mm (copy of Biogon for Contax). Orion was produced in Ukraine, at Kiev, between 1956 (aprox 10.000ex in total) - 1969; is a 4 lens symmetrical type, modest for today needs, but VERY good for snapshots; I use with III c and look well and I can make professional photos with a popular old like camera. Nobody can understand, when I tell a GOOD 8x10 made with Orion, how this is possible. Dinu Lazar