At 06:17 PM 1/3/98 -0800, Jeff Spirer wrote:
>They are not the same. Konica did it first, bringing out the Hexar lens in
>a Leica M mount around two years ago. The entire production run of 2000
>sold out immediately with no publicity. Ricoh did it sometime last year
>with the GR1 lens and the same thing happened. I don't know how many were
>made of the Ricoh lens. I have never seen them advertised, never seen them
>in the used market.
>
Info on the Ricoh GR1 lens is at:
http://www.ricoh.co.jp/camera/gr-lens/index.html
Since it is in Japanese, I have to tell you a summary of it. The total
production was 3000;
of that 2000 in silver (98,000 yen) and 1000 in black (105,000 yen). It
sound like that these were made for the domestic market.
130 yen to the dollar. Very expensive. If you buy one each, that is
enough to buy an OM-4Ti.
Tomoko Yamamoto
Photographer, Composer, Soprano
mailto:tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.charm.net/~tomokoy/
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