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I'm happy to hear that Dirk is working with you. I've dealt with him and Japan Exposures on a couple of transactions, they've been a good vendor to work with for me so far.Japan Exposures has decided to send the lens to Mr Miyazaki to inspect and hopefully fix the lens, which is fine by me. Hopefully the issue will be resolved. Thanks for everyone's opinion, and I'll post an update when I receive the lens back from repair.
i have some albums over at the rangefinder forumI'm happy to hear that Dirk is working with you. I've dealt with him and Japan Exposures on a couple of transactions, they've been a good vendor to work with for me so far.
(My impression of the lens from the JE write up remains that it is somewhat Lomo like, not a plastic lens like a Holga but a high quality lens of a simple design with a unique imaging signature, albeit one that is built to higher quality standards than the Lomo. It sure is an interesting lens, looking at the photos of it. I'd love to see some photos made with one.)
I am not an expert on lens design nor am I expert on Cooke to know how "all the characteristics of a Cooke" relates to topic at hand but allow me to use some layman's common sense here:
My logic tells me decentered lens is a decentered lens is a decentered lens and if you can see it on APS-C you will also see it on FF and anything in between so your statement makes no sense to me.The truth of the matter is that we don't know how the lens resolves the corners of the image because we can't see the corners of the image, these photo's are cropped from the centre of the image.
... mounting it onto a camera that crops the image I say its hard to tell by how much the lens is faulty, if at all.
This is where I feel you are wronging Douglas by jumping to huge assumption. I happen to know him, very little true, but he has always left me with impression of guy that does things with no wrong intentions and goes more out of his way than others do to assure he has done people right and hasn't wronged them.As for cross posting to so many forums, when you get plenty of replies wherever you post, I see that as simply a way to try and brow beat Dirk into giving you your money back after you realised you bought the wrong lens for you. Its the tactic of a mardy person, not somebody searching for expert opinion.
I'm glad you agree, Japan Exposures sure were on the ropes there in a one way diatribe. Happy to put some perspective on things250swb - personal attacks are not acceptable on this forum.
Let's be clear I was commenting on your comments about Douglas.I'm glad you agree, Japan Exposures sure were on the ropes there in a one way diatribe. Happy to put some perspective on things
Steve
Japan Exposures are a good company, and I'm sure do follow the time honoured business model of 'the customer is always right', so I see no intrinsic value in the terms of them agreeing with you, they will agree with you whatever the problem is. As for cross posting to so many forums, when you get plenty of replies wherever you post, I see that as simply a way to try and brow beat Dirk into giving you your money back after you realised you bought the wrong lens for you. Its the tactic of a mardy person, not somebody searching for expert opinion.
Here is a link to the Perar web page that describes it in detail, showing that it is not a toy lens, or like a Holga, and that it is intended as a serious compact lens to make a pocketable M body combination, even if one copy of it turns out to be faulty.
http://www.japanexposures.com/2011/05/25/ms-optical-super-triplet-perar-3-535-mark-ii/
Steve
On the other hand I did perceive it same way Terry did as Steve's tone was obvious from his very first post.Terry I'm sorry but I did not see Steve's post as a personal attack at all from my perspective.
Post #1 actuallyHere is my opinion on this. Japan Exposures was not even mentioned until 12 posts into this thread.....
Perhaps I'm one of the few.... A 5cm Elmar is also soft wide open, especially around the edges, and unless I am mistaken not many people would compare one of those with a Lomo or Holga lens.
You are correct. I didn't really notice it there and only when this issue was being discussed.Post #1 actually
Steve