Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ricoh 21mm lens?
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:24:56 -0400

You could also try the KOBALUX 21mm, 2.8, $499, got a good review in July
Shutterbug and for sale at Adorama. Also 28mm, 3.5, available at $399.
Steve
Annapolis
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>From: "Simon Pulman-Jones" <spulmanjones@lbs.ac.uk>
>To: "Leica-Users@Mejac. Palo-Alto. Ca. Us" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
>Subject: [Leica] Ricoh 21mm lens?
>Date: Mon, Jul 26, 1999, 7:48 AM
>

>Does anybody have any information about the Ricoh 21mm lens? I think it was
>due out in spring this year, but unlike the Cosina/Voigtlander lenses it
>doesn't seem to have made much of an impression on the LUG or the press. Are
>they only available in Japan? I'm looking for a compact, affordable 21mm
>which I can use on an M5 and have a feeling the Ricoh may fit the bill.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Simon.
>