Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Voigtländer with LSM
From: "Martin V. Howard" <marho@ikp.liu.se>
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 15:14:27 +0100

Jeremy Kime wrote:
>
> Cosina are in fact bigger/better players in the camera business than
> I knew, they've made both camera and lenses for Nikon's bottom of the
> range SLR (EM presumably) and also lenses for both Vivitar and Tamron.
> So although the stuff won't be Leica quality, it won't be rubbish
> either.
> 

I beg to differ.  Vivitar, Tamron and the cheap-ass, entry-level Nikons
are not exactly high quality optics.  You could probably get better
picture with a cleaned-out Pepsi bottle than many Vivitar lenses...


M.

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