Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark: I only wish it had only cost $200.00 at the time. I also bought the 100 f2 (Very German) and the amazing and very goofy- looking Japanese 21mm f2.8 and also the 300 f4. And the Best-Bang-For- The--Buck 135mm f2.8, for that matter. None of them cheap, especially the 21mm f2.8. But what a lens. All stolen with my RTS II and RX. Oh, and my Photo Grey card. Secret Navy Invisible Writing all over it, so they thought. From a locked car in front of my garage in daylight. I was home. Nobody saw nuttin'... Bob On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:33 PM, Mark Rabiner wrote: > Although I now shoot Leica R8 and 9, I previously shot a lot with the > Contax RX and RTSII. The on-camera lens was always the Carl Zeiss > Planar 50/1.4. Back then Carl Zeiss Germany and Japan used Schott > billets for their lens blanks. Except that there was no Carl no Germany you were shooting with a Kyocera lens which is why it cost 200 bucks and not 2000. Mark William Rabiner _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information