As an owner of the same lens I still use mine a lot.
Jim a.
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> Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 22:15:26 -0400
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> Subject: Goodbye, Rikenon 28-100/4
>
> Since none of you slobs bought it at my asking price of $90, I decided I'd
> just keep it in my car. I used it today in Baltimore during a walk with my
> son, who's visiting from Israel.
>
> Geez, it took me forever to focus that f/4 lens on my Super Program. The
> two-touch operation slowed me down; and the f/4 kept the point of focus from
> snapping in and out with authority. All my shots were verticals, and the Super
> Program's horizontally split rangefinder patch was useless for vertical shots.
> The Ricoh bodies, with their 45-degree split, are much quicker for verticals,
> I find.
>
> Anyway, I gave my son the Super Program, the Rikenon zoom, and, for good
> measure, my Rikenon P 50/2, to take back to Israel to give his older sister,
> who had expressed interest in the Super Program a couple years ago. I still
> have a Super Program, two other bodies, and nine primes. Heck, I may throw in
> my Zenitar fisheye for good measure. Sometimes it's more gratifying to give
> away "cheap, but good" lenses than to sell them for beans. Too bad I sold off
> so many choice "seconds" two furloughs ago.
>
> I sure hope my "new" Pentax SMC 55/1.8K proves a worthy successor to the
> Rikenon P 50/2 at f/2.8 and f/4. If it doesn't, well, there are about a
> half-dozen Rikenon P 50/2s on EBay for $30 every day.
>
> By the way, after a five-week furlough, I start a new job Monday, July 1.
>
> Paul Franklin Stregevsky
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