Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leica sells the Colorplan as a CF ( curved field ) and a non-CF version. The Super Colorplan is available only as non-CF. At the Photokina I was told, that the CF has been built for the paper framed Kodachrome slides, and since these paper frames will vanish, there will be no new Super Colorplan with CF. But what about all the other unglazed plastic frames( e.g. HAMA )? Which lens gives for this case the better performance ? I need advice from you, since I intend to purchase a new lens for my Pradovit P300. Thanks in advance > >Dietmar ################# I don't think that the explanation is accurate. The CF-lens has been calculated from a mean curvature of a transparency without glass mount, whatever the type (see Leica foto n°4/1980). So it is a "trying-to-sit-on-the-fence solution". As all these solutions, a stop nit-picking leicaist (pleonasm) won't be satisfied by such a compromise. I presume that the buyer of a super-colorplan lens knows perfectly that, if he still wants to improve the quality of a projection, there is no solution but one: to put all the transparencies in glass mounts. Dominique Pellissier