[LargeFormat] Osaka Commercial lenses?
Michael Briggs
largeformat@f32.net
Sat Jun 14 22:01:21 2003
On 15-Jun-2003 William Wiseman wrote:
> Anbody familiar with this line of lenses? All I have been able to find
> on the web is the current US distributor. I have been looking at one on
> ebay and wondered about the quality/value of the brand.
Osaka is believed to be the name used by the US distributer (Bromwell Marketing)
for the Congo line of lenses. Congo has their own web page:
http://www.cosmonet.org/~congo/index_e.html The agreement of the specs
supports the idea identity of the two.
> The distributor lists them as 4 element Tessars, multi-coated and in
> Copal shutters.
The Congo Commericals are Tessars. Congo lists more lens types than
Bromwell does.
All I see on Bromwell's page is "coated". Congo's webpage does say
multi-coated.
You will probably find more on the web under the Congo name, e.g., Kerry
Thalmann has some comments at http://www.thalmann.com/largeformat/wide.htm.
--Michael