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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jring" data-source="post: 3282892" data-attributes="member: 133897">Hi Looksharp,I hope you find a TSN-3 for 300€ - just like mine - well actually it was 400 but that included a tripod which goes for over 100 on ebay any day...Regarding brightness of the TSN-1/3 - was your test example equipped with the vintage 20-60 zoom? If yes, you found the reason - that one is really not great (narrow, dim and not sharp over 40x).Get yourself a 30x wide or the current Kowa zoom for the 6xx bodies or an Opticron SDL v2 which fits the thread outside the bayonet after adding an o-ring and gives a very nice 18-52 wide angle zoom.Joachim</blockquote>