At 17:22 2002-12-30 -0500, T Rittenhouse wrote:
In case anyone is interested, I've had the original Bessa R for over a year now (favourite lens combo: Pancake 35/2.5), bought a barely-used Bessa L cheaply while on Holiday in Spain this summer (favourite lens combo: 21/4) and got the last 101 Anniversary Bessa T from Robert White this morning (with the collapsible 50/3.5 Heliar claimed by Popular Photography to be the sharpest they've ever tested).Classic Camera is selling the R on ebay with a bin of $300. Seems like a real deal to me. Let us know how you like it after you have used it a bit, Raimo.
While the Leica screw mount is quite fiddly, the Voightlander lenses rock. Unfortunately the opinion seems to tend towards the Pentax K mount lenses not being of the same quality.
Both Robert White and CameraQuest are selling the original R at rock bottom prices, so if you need a pocketable alternative to your Pentax SLR I can hearly recommend it instead of getting a point & shoot. (That said, my MX and 40/2.8 really aren't much larger.)
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