Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/03

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Helios 85/1.5?history?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 09:34:52 -0400

At 08:49 AM 10/3/01 +0200, Mârtiòð ZelmenisZW5pcw== wrote:
>
>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.

Well, I've been buying and using SPS lenses and cameras for more than a
decade and have had a failure rate of around 10%.  The other 90% have
worked well and the optical quality of the lenses is astonishingly good.  I
regularly use Russian glass on my M6.

Cuique sua res, but it is dangerous to make a broad and general statement
based solely upon our own experience.

Marc

msmall@roanoke.infi.net  FAX:  +540/343-7315
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