OK This is what I had written Not that is so important or anything Thanks everyone for the help I don't remember this happening before!
Howdy I love Russian cameras and lenses. The women aint bad either. I have a Revueflex based on a Zenit 3m with a Helios 44, Helios 40 a huge Jupiter 6 all in ZM39 and a Jupiter 12 in LTM39 as well as a beautiful black Helios 40 mk2 in M42. The ZM39 lenses can be used with an m42 adapter and along with the M42 lenses can be fitted with an EOS adapter. Though quality was not uniform, you can hunt around for a good one and the results will amaze you! Currently there is a russiancamera group on yahoogroups and another more active group hosted by the amazing Bob Shell on www.beststuff.com. There are also more specific Kiev, Zenit and Zorki groups elsewhere. Whatever the case Yeah, I love Russian cameras! See Ya Javier --- Alexander Fedyachkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello EOS group, > > I'm a new member at this group. I am from Russia. Is > there any person > who likes Russian photo accessories? As for me I'm a > fan of Zenit > cameras and all Russian lenses. There used to like > Russian lenses all > over the World. The lenses considered to be one of > the best lenses. I > wonder what you think of Russian lenses now. Do you > use them with your > EOS cameras? > Hope to here your opinion. > > -- > Best regards, > Alexander Fedyachkin AND Actually, the bulk of Soviet lens designs were splashes of German lenses to the point that on some the elements and mechanical parts are indistinguishable. Clearly there were and are some very talented optical designers in Russia but the Germans always had the edge giving it up only to the Japanese and then only occasionally and on a lens by lens basis. As for exotic optics made for military or space use, and decent optical firm can produce a superb lens. The trick is to churn out 500 or 5000 while maintaining a standard close to the custom job. Like I said if you get lucky you could wind up with a very sharp and desirable Russian lens but if luck isn't on your side it could be a real dog that you want to use. Lastly Zeiss Steinheil,Schneider, Leitz (Elcan), canon, meyer and many others have also produced exotic lenses as good or better than the best from KMZ. Sorry Javier --- Alex Zabrovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick, that is exactly what I said. > They have had (and still have, although serious > "brain leakage" to the West > left some holes in former USSR science) excellent > minds and tremendously > capable engineering stuff, but their problem is > totally wrong marketing and > overall strategy heavily influenced by politics. > The vast majority of the resources were put into > military/space research > developing highest quality and superb instruments > (including optics and > electro-optical systems), but from the reasons > mentioned above, all that > technology was hardly seeing commercial world being > heavily restricted and > highly classified. > > As a former USSR citizen (actually spend almost all > my teenage years there) > I speak from my own experience, rather then based on > rumors and biased > opinions. > > Regards, > Alex Z See Ya Javier __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
