Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, it was just my experience - you're right, it depends largely on choice - but then even meticulous choice may be a bad guide. If you take such risks, you may end up with lenses that are badly constructed, liable to break easily because of it - and of bad materials as well. And it doesn't show on the first moment. It's just too easy to end up with a lemon. From my experience I maintain - as the Russian-made cameras/lenses were practiclly the only ones I could get more or less freely in my early days - the less moving parts they had, the more reliable they were. But then - glass was often a problem, too. Well, I still own a few such lenses - but no cameras. A different experience of mine is - that Russians (maybe we should be more precise - Ukrainians?) made (are still producing?) quite acceptable enlarger lenses. (Again - you have to select one from many.) Martin At 11:00 AM 10/2/01 +0200, Mârtiòð ZelmenisZW5pcw== wrote: > >You're taking a big risk - Russian made lenses may have got rather good >glass, but mechanicaly they're awful - and no-one wants to repair them. This is far too broad a statement. Many SPS lenses are mechanically fine, others are poorly built -- it is simply a matter of picking and choosing. And there are many, many repair folks in the US who will work on SPS lenses and cameras. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html