Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/31

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Subject: Re: [Leica] What russian/east german lenses to buy?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 18:48:22 -0500

At 01:13 PM 3/31/98 -0800, Marco Grande wrote:
>I've looked at cross sections of Canon RF 50mm lenses.
>Only the 50/1.5 (a lens with a bad reputation) looks like a Sonnar.
>Their good lenses (50/1.4, 50/1.8) look like typical Gauss designs.

The 1.4 and 1.8 lenses date, I believe, from 1953 or so, long after the
period I was discussing.

Marc


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