Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/15
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At 08:36 AM 15/8/99 Marc J S, knowledgingly wrote:
>Before and during the Second World War, Carl Zeiss Jena made small runs of
>their 2/5cm and 1.5/5cm Sonnars in LTM. After the War, production of these
>lenses was made in the USSR, and has continued to the present -- the
>Russian lenses were initially called "ZK", for "Zonnar Krasnagorsk", and,
>from 1952 or so, "Jupiter-8" for the 2/50 and "Jupiter-3" for the 1.5/50.
>
Marc
Thanks.... and how is the quality of the Zeiss Sonnar pics compared to the
Leica ones of that era (I presume Elmar / Summitar would be the Sonnar's
contemporary)?
Dan K.
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