Re: Vs: way OT: Voigtlander Bessa lenses

[Paul Stenquist]

Yes, you'll have to pay a couple of hundred bucks a copy for decent 
39mm screwmount lenses. But many of them are superb The Voigtlander 
35/1.7 is a gem. I have the 75/2.5 and love it. And of course many of 
the Leitz lenses are great if you can find them in good condition. The 
Summicron 50/2 is generally considered one of the best lenses ever 
made. Bargains? The Russian lenses can be found for twenty bucks or 
less. But it's a crap shoot in terms of build quality. Some are  very 
nice. Some are useless garbage.
Paul
On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 01:49 PM, Raimo Korhonen wrote:

Yeah - but compared with Leica lenses they are really inexpensive.
All the best!
Raimo
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Aihe: way OT: Voigtlander Bessa lenses

I would love to buy a Bessa T or R, because I tried them out a while
back and liked them a lot, but I've been looking around for lenses and
it looks like the lenses are several hundred $ each no matter where I
look. Am I missing something or will I really have to pay tons of 
money
for each lens if I start building a rangefinder system? Sorry for the 
OT
post but I'd rather not deal with Leica-only snobs online. ;)