Kang Rinpoche S 600 F11.5 (Chinese Fujinon C 600mm )

[Jim Fitzgerald]

I recently purchased the only lens I've ever bought new. My Cooke triple convertible. I can shoot three focal lengths even up to 650 mm with the single component. Legendary optics and machining and I had no problem paying the price for this multi coated respected lens. I'd go this route. Just my .02 on the subject.

[MAubrey]

It seems unfair to automatically assume that the people creating this lens are low quality or don't care about IP.

A good example of a relatively recent Chinese startup that has embodied both workmanship and quality is Venus Optics for 35mm format:

https://phillipreeve.net/blog/the-ma...2-0-zero-d-fe/
https://phillipreeve.net/blog/mr-li-...ture-of-laowa/

[Tin Can]

Excellent rebuttal with fantastic story in the links.

I really like the frog analogy and the last sentence in the first link.

Makes me hopeful.

It seems unfair to automatically assume that the people creating this lens are low quality or don't care about IP.

A good example of a relatively recent Chinese startup that has embodied both workmanship and quality is Venus Optics for 35mm format:

https://phillipreeve.net/blog/the-ma...2-0-zero-d-fe/
https://phillipreeve.net/blog/mr-li-...ture-of-laowa/

[Pfsor]

Much more useful than this quibbling would be to hear an actual witness of the quality of this lens. I've heard (was it on this forum or elsewhere?) that there are tons of LF or even ULF users in China - isn't there anyone who would find its way to this forum to proudly announce its personal testimony about the lens? Not even one who uses this lens? Did they all go underground with their knowledge? Isn't there anyone from our Chinese members who could bring us the news? I wonder.

[Drew Wiley]

The problem with that, Pfor, is that a lot of ULF folks make rather, er, ...(trying not to offend anyone), creative rather than crisp shots which objectively present the capability of the lens. And this would have to be done on an optical bench basis rather than using a conventional film holder in which the film tends to sag. In other words, the capability of the lens itself has to be isolated from other variables. But since there's a used on up for sale at Catlabs, somebody must have tried it first, and it could be backtracked that way. But one or two lens users out there somewhere (maybe) does not equal the manifold testimonial of Fuji 600C users.

[Pfsor]

Let us not despair - there are more than 1b of people in China.

[pierre506]

I recently purchased the only lens I've ever bought new. My Cooke triple convertible. I can shoot three focal lengths even up to 650 mm with the single component. Legendary optics and machining and I had no problem paying the price for this multi coated respected lens. I'd go this route. Just my .02 on the subject.

Yup, Jim, it's the safer way.

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[Drew Wiley]

Yeah Pfsor, but I have the advantage of a wife with a degree in Chinese literature, who has lived there. She could translate that site. But if I even mentioned the term "lens" to her, I'd be in a lot of trouble. We have an agreement - if I want a new lens, I have to sell an old one first.

[MAubrey]

Yeah Pfsor, but I have the advantage of a wife with a degree in Chinese literature, who has lived there. She could translate that site. But if I even mentioned the term "lens" to her, I'd be in a lot of trouble. We have an agreement - if I want a new lens, I have to sell an old one first.

But you'd be safe, then, right? You don't want a new lens yet.

[Pfsor]

Hurry up, Drew! Sell all you have to get to the bottom of it all! (And tell us the truth about the lens after....)