P3D Re: Ektar lenses

[BK Nowlan <bknowlan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Wageman writes:

> It is a fact that off-the-shelf lenses are not precision-matched.  The
> David White company is well documented to have had a difficult (i.e.
> expensive) time getting matched sets of lenses for the Realist (this is
> ostensibly why they dropped Kodak Ektar lenses).

Greg, would you please elaborate on this.  I thought they discontinued
the Ektar lenses because the lenses themselves were too expensive.  Have
there been reports (by members of P3-D) of any Realist lenses that were
not matched on cameras sold?  Was quality control at David White
reliable?

Brenda


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