Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] NEW Leica USA screw mount lenses!
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 07:37:41 -0400

At 11:51 PM 8/10/1999 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote:
>I'm not sure the Zeiss glass in Contax SLR has quite the reputation as other
>Zeiss glass for other systems.
>
>I think there is Zeiss and then there's Zeiss. Maybe I'm wrong.

The Zeiss lenses used in the Contax SLR system are direct developments of
the Contarex lens line.  They are every bit as much "Zeiss" lenses as are,
say, the lenses for my Hasselblad.

Marc

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