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Q: When can you ask $6.4K for a $100 lens?(Tomioka Insanity)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is indeed a nice lens, but they did also have the somewhat similar VS1 28/1.9, which IMO is better, if a little more unruly in some aspects.
Additionally, to my eye, the styling on this one looks like it's earlier than the Series 1s, which I beleive were introduced in 1978? The similarly-styled Komine-made 135/2.8 I believe dates to 1971, so if this is of similar age, it already would have been pretty familiar as a non-Series 1 lens.

vivaldibow wrote:
Interesting. Never seen this lens before. The Vivitar 35mm/1.9 is a pretty good lens. Don't know why Vivitar didn't select as a Series 1 lens.


PostPosted: Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
If the various examples you've posted on this site are any indication, I wholeheartedly agree with this statement.

simple.joy wrote:


An overwhelmingly unremarkable mid-tier manufacturer of a variety of taking lenses... The couple of (in my opinion) truly outstanding lenses they made almost all are specialized industrial lenses and certainly flew under the radar until a couple of years back, when macro-experts Robert OToole and Ray Parkhurst placed them in the top-tier of various comparison tests for macro-lenses.



PostPosted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 10:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
A thing is worth what a fool wants to pay.
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