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Subject: Re: [OM] What does this mean ?
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 20:46:38 -0700
It means the writer has a future in advertising, a way with words and a rather loose sense of the need for meaningful, or objectively truthful, information in them. :-)

"Soviet" lenses vary over a broad range from excellent to really poor. The special excitement they offer compared to lenses from other places is that they can vary over that same range across different examples of the same lens! To give you a little perspective on quality control in the ex SSRs, there is at least one company which buys their cameras new, takes them apart, puts them back together correctly, calibrates and resells them with some guarantee of consistent performance and reliability.

There is a lot of info about them on the net to help one navigate the reefs and shoals and come home to harbor with a good lens bargain, if you find that sort of thing enjoyable.

Moose

Wayne Harridge wrote:

Extracted from an add on a well known auction site:

"In the main, most all Soviet lenses are exceptionally good and this one is no exception!"

What does this really mean ?




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