Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 12:05:47 PM, you wrote: PB> Somewhat the same has happened to Mercedes in cars, where once the engineers drove product design, PB> and...
Would be interested in knowing about it too. Got one coming. Jay ... _______________________________________ EDSAMAIL. Internet the way YOU WANT IT. ...
All I know is that the West German Isco Göttingen company that made lenses for the likes of Exakta, is sometime described as a spin off of Schneider...
(In reply) - it happened gradually, as it was a company mindset, and probably the most extreme example was the 1970's-era Mercedes 600SEL limo that set a lap...
Yeah, I think your E320 is a "W124" series. If I recall, I do believe that they are regarded as the last of the really solidly engineered ones, but they still...
Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 9:50:25 AM, you wrote: NK> I can't afford any of their nicer products No, nor can I now that I'm no longer working. I think the...
To further exacerbate Leica's problems, since the turn of the century several firms have come out with new RF cameras that look virtually identical to the...
Hi all, I saw a couple of Komura lenses with interchangeable lens mounts. One is a zoom lens 90-250/4.5 M42 and the other is a 300/5 MD mount.I heard little...
... Just a year ago some with boxes were closing without buyers on ebay for US$180. Like wow. At US$500 you could go buy a Canon RF 55/1.2 and have enough...
Back in 1964 when I bought my Nikkorex F I got a 135mm Komura lens for it. It was a fairly decent performer - I have several cherished portraits of family...
Word on the ground is that Kyocera has stopped production of the Contax G system. Heck, that they've stopped production of the G-system, N-system and even the...
Hi, Gurus' Are the captioned two lenses of the same make? I've just bought the Porst from Austria for 110 Euros, can anyone tell me where to find literatures...
In article <d036gu+vjd7@eGroups.com>, tigerarm2000@... ... In the seventies and the eighties in the UK, they were a teleconverter specialist, and made...
optics? ... teleconverter ... at the ... they are ... Hi, Thank you all for the kind reply. I think I will buy the 90-250/4.5 lens to try my luck. The lens...
No. It is not the same lens. If you had the Porst 55/1.2 in M42 which I have, it says Tomioka and is the same lens. I've also had the Porst 55/1.2 in Pk. .....
If I'm not wrong, when Pentax didn't make 2x converters in the 1960s/70s for their m42 spotmatics... they endorsed the Komura 2x as the official 2x converter....
hi folks sorry... hit the wrong button during editing and reforwarded the digest to the entire list. For those of you who got it, pls delete it. apologies....
hi Franka on an off-topic, Would you know where "Mr Russian" at the Sino Centre in Tsim Tsa Tsui, HK , has gone to? .... his shop was gone when my friend went ...
Hi Kelvin, Don't get upset, he isstill there! Yesterday I did buy from him an AI to EOS adaptor(said to be Russian made) mount for HK$150 and a 58mm Reverse...
(In reply) - Somehow, I seem to recall that the Porst lens was built by Fuji (Fujinon). Here's a reference, among many, to the tie between the "Porst" brand...
Hi Gurus, I have just acquired this lens. I want to test it on my 300D. I understand there is a very expensive adaptor from Elefoto Japan which is quite beyond...
hi, thanks for your note! Any idea if he is still there or in a different location? Message: 6 Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:42:09 -0000 From: "km1412003"...
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