On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, gma wrote:
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|Gary Schloss wrote:
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|> Denton Taylor and Stephen Kudlacek wrote:
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|> DT> OK, everyone, I'm going to unload a lot of my Olympus
|> DT> collection to move to Contax, who is still demonstrating a
|> DT> commitment to making quality manual focus cameras and lenses.
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|> SK> I made the same decision a couple of months ago. I didn't want
|> SK> to invest my hard earned money into a dying system. Contax's
|> SK> cameras are solid, their lenses great.
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|> Moreover, the current Zeiss lens lineup
|> lacks the breadth and depth of the Zuiko or other pro-level camera
|> makers' (N*k*n, C*n*n). Same is true of the other Contax system
|> components.
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|> <snip>
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|> DT> Wall Street Camera had a used RTSIII that I really loved. Since
|> DT> I also bought a 35 1.4 and a 85 1.4 I got a pretty good deal.
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|I'm not taking sides here, but I sure wish there were 35 F/1.4 and 85
|F/1.4 lenses available by Zuiko! Sorta belies your statement above re
|Zuiko having better 'depth' than Contax lens selection. <g>
These two lenses were part of a wish list I emailed to
Olympus about two and a half months ago. In view of the
upcoming price increase, I probably wasted my time.
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