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A Weekly Column By Mike Johnston
© Mike Johnston 2002
Good morning!
Never hesitant to gird myself with armor and plunge into the holy wars, I thought I would write this morning about a favorite subject, lenses. This was triggered when I was poking around on Photo.net last night and encountered the following exchange.

First poster: "I am debating whether to buy a 50 Cron or a Konica Hexar RF kit that would get me the 50 Hexanon, plus a real M7 body. Any thoughts, suggestions, shouting, flaming, etc.?"
First respondant: "Get a nice used M6 and Leica 50 'Cron. That way you'll have a real rangefinder, AND a real lens."

Oh ho! So now Konica cannot build real lenses, eh? How soon, how soon they forget. Noble Konishiroku is slighted again. Collectors of Hexanon AR lenses shake their heads; they're used to these prejudices.
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Later in the same thread, Dante Stella, who has awonderful websiteyou should go visit sometime, wrote something wry tha...

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