Hello Bob, 10:21:14 PM, Tuesday, November 26, 2002, you wrote:
BM> Nothing against mother Russia, but I doubt anyone from BM> a country where German or Japanese lenses have been BM> available for the last 40 years EVER considered BM> Russian lenses to be among the best. My experience BM> with Zenit cameras and lenses (I used to sell them at BM> a camera store I worked at), is that the best of them BM> were primitive and coarse, with adequate optics. But BM> quality control was abysmal, and we had many failures BM> and many with misaligned, poor quality lenses. It is really so that Zenit cameras and lenses are enough primitive in comparison with German and Japanese high-end models, but I said about quality/price relativity. Besides, the last time the quality may became better, because my (little) experience in sailing them shows that. We sell Zenit cameras (at our site www.RuGift.com) and have been doing that more than a year. We give a guarantee for a year and only 2-3 per 100 of cameras and 1 per 100 of lenses were returned back. BM> I've not much experience with Russian lenses recently, BM> other than the 16mm fish-eye that's sold all over BM> ebay. :0) It is our bestseller ! Now we try to sell it with EOS adapter at Ebay too and I would like to know in your group how this variant you are interested in. This is important for our marketing :) BM> I consider it a decent lens, and a good value BM> for the money, but certainly not the equal of current BM> Japanese rectilinear fisheyes. Then again, it's a lot BM> cheaper than those Japanese lenses. You are quite right! ;) -- Best regards, Alexander Fedyachkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.RuGift.com - New Russian cameras, lenses and other optics * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
