I wouldn't mind knowing who made them either, I bought
a 135mm F2.8 lens by carsen, it was only about $30 and
has perfect MC glass, and has hardly been used, seems
to take nice shots.
Chris
--- Parzival Herzog <parz@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a
28-70mm Carsen 1:3.8-4.5 zoom lens.
> Carsen is (was?) the Canadian importer of Olympus
> camera products. I presume they branded a line
> of cheaper lenses for Olympus SLRs, and I am
> wondering
> who the maufacturer of this lens was, or what better
> known third party brand has sold this lens model.
>
> If it helps to identify the beast, it is of metal
> contruction,
> it has a 58mm filter thread, its a one touch zoom,
> it
> has a close focus max reproduction ratio of 1:5
>
> The "Third Party Lenses Resource Megasite" at
> http://www.smu.edu/~rmonagha/third/index.html
> doesn't include the Carsen name in its list of
> re-branders.
>
> - Parzival
>
>
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