Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/20
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At 6:46 PM -0500 2/20/03, Austin Franklin wrote:
> > >> the Contax SLR's have
>> >> been basically non-competitive because the glass is generally slow
>> >
>> > WHAT? Are you dipping in the left over egg-nog again? SLOW? Yeah,
>> > 85/1.2,
>> >
>>
>> Contax has an 85/1.2? I thought Canon was alone in this feat.
>
>Contax has an 85/1.2. It is very expensive, but it exists.
>
>Austin
Wasn't the 85/1.2 a special edition only available for a very short
time a number of years ago, and subsequently they went back to the
85/1.4? Seems I read that somewhere. Their present fast 85 is the 1.4.
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