Richard, No, Kardan it is NOT! Kardon, mit an O. The Reid lens was superb! It beat the crap out of the contemporaneous Summar, Summitar etc. Jerry Richard Knoppow wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marc James Small" <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 4:41 PM > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Leica and Contax > > > At 02:14 PM 4/3/05 -0700, Richard Knoppow wrote: > Kardan is it. I'm not sure the Ektar was a dinky little > bottle since Kodak was making outstanding lenses at the > time. BTW, the lenses for the Reid were made by TT&H so they > were probably excellent. > > --- > Richard Knoppow > Los Angeles, CA, USA > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx