Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Cosina licensed the right to use the Voigtlander name from Ringphoto in Germany. The new Cosina/Voigtlander lenses are, quite simply, great lenses. with their modern designs and multi coating, better than any LTM lenses Leica made until the just released new series of Leica LTM lenses. that Cosina could make a LTM lens lineup and come close to Leica quality for a fraction of the price is amazing. If it were easy, someone else would have done it. By my count at least, no one else has had a quality LTM lens line since the demise of the Canon LTM lens lineup in the mid 1970's (sorry Marc, as far as I am concerned the quality control of the Russian LTM lenses is too inconsistent to call them a lens line.) IF the old Voigtlander had made products like these, it's my guess they would have stayed in business. Stephen "Glen M. Robinson" wrote: > The short answer is that these guys have as much connexion to Voigtlander > as the Wells Fargo Bank does to Meredith Wilson. These are COSINA lenses, > guys. > > Marc > > But they are cheap! > > Glen Robinson