[LRflex] Re: LEICA R4 AND R8
- From: Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@xxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:39:54 +0100
>
>> At 06/12/2006, you wrote:
>> Dear Leica friends;
>>
>> 1) Someone can help me where can I find a good report of these
>> cameras inside internet ?
>>
>>
>> What is your opinion about the Vario Elmar 28-70 and 80-800 may be
>> manufactured by Kyocera or Sigma ????? in Japan
>>
>>
> Don't knock Kyocera, Jose!
> Do you think Leica would have contracted them or Sigma to build lenses
> if they thought they were not up to specification? No way!
>
> Kyocera made some really fantastic, and highly underrated, lenses
> under the name of Yashica, and they were good enough (for many years)
> to supply a whole load of glass to Zeiss for the Contax SLR series.
> The Yashica 3,5/21 , the 2,8/24 the macro 2.8/55 are 3 of the
> outstanding ones of the series in CY mount, pity they won't fit on my R7.
Some of the sharpest and fastest lenses on fixed lens RF cameras are on
the front of Yashicas too.
Cheers
Douglas
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