Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 19:33 17.11.1997 -0500, Marc J Small kindly & patiently clarified my Zeiss confusion: >The "Distagon" and "Flektogon" names are applied to the same formula. When >the Zeisses divided, Western courts awarded the rights to the Carl Zeiss >trademarks to the West German guys, and so Oberkochen got "Sonnar", >"Planar", "Distagon", and "Tessar" to play with. The result was that the >East German Carl Zeiss Jena folks used "S" and "T" for the Sonnar and >Tessar and invented the new names, "Biometar" and "Flektogon" for the >refigured Planar and the Distagon. Looking at my chromes, I estimate the CZJ 4/50 Flektogon's performance as a kind of MF 2/35 non-asph Summicron results, best version :), with an outstanding pleasant presentation of visual reality, incl. beautiful bokeh or color management - but more sharp. Further, I've never seen another lens which could compare to the sharpness of the CZJ 2.8/120 Biometar, which's bokeh (unfortunately) compares to the one of the 1.4/35 asph. Summilux. Alf