[Leica] New Zeiss lenses compared against Leica

[bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen)]

Well, Karen, it might behoove you to note that I was responding to a
post that described a 50 1.4  Planar. The post may have been in error,
but it was that to which I was responding. And while we're discussing
thorns in sides, note that you were the one who originally posted the
summary of the review discussing the virtues of the Zeiss lenses, and
the one who made the cost comparisons - since we're talking about
thorns. :-)

*note the smiley.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+bdcolen=earthlink.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Karen Nakamura
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 9:22 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: RE: [Leica] New Zeiss lenses compared against Leica


At 3:00 PM -0500 04.12.22, B. D. Colen wrote:
>I am aware of that, Feli - I am also aware, as are you, that they can 
>put any label they want on something, yet it can be radically changed 
>from the original design. I may well be completely wrong - but I 
>seriously doubt that given the major push Zeiss is making, they're 
>going to put out a 50 1.4 that isn't the equal of the latest Leica M 
>lens. But as I said, I may be very wrong.

You're very wrong. :-)  If you had taken the  step of  researching 
things, you would have found out that Zeiss isn't planning on any 
fast 50s for the moment. Their only announced  50 is a 50/2 Planar.

        http://www.zeissikon.com/lens.50.htm

If you're going to be a thorn in people's sides, it behooves you to 
be an informed thorn. :-)

Karen

ps. Please note smileys! :-)


-- 
Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
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