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Matt Clara

"Andy Hewitt" wrote in message
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rafe b rafebATspeakeasy.net wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 19:18:31 +0000, (Andy
Hewitt) wrote:

My worst lens ever has been the Miranda 35-70 two touch zoom for my
OM40. Truly awful, not a single picture comes out in focus.

Never owned a Soligor zoom, but the 50mm/1.8
Soligor on my Miranda Sensomat was just fine.

I recently sold a 16x24" print from a chrome taken
with that lens - in 1970.

http://www.terrapinphoto.com/gingko_leaves.html

There were two qualities of Miranda here though, up to the early
eighties they were a manufacturer of good quality camera equipment. Then
they got bought by Dixons, and were just branded cheap stuff from the
far east. Unfortunately I bought the latter quality.

Mind you, the actual quality of a picture is going to be controlled by
the quality of the lens anyway. If the lens is going to produce a ****e
image, then the rest doesn't really matter.

Some folks with Holgas tend to disprove that. Jennifer Shaw's "Railroad
Ties" is a good example: http://www.shotsmag.com/shots89-07.jpg

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Matt Clara
www.mattclara.com