[Leica] Don't Trust Everything You Read On The Internet, or: 2 Myths of the Biogon Lens

[George Lottermoser]

On Apr 23, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Richard Man wrote:

> The Mamiya 7 43mm is a "better Biogon than the Biogon" myth has been
> repeated so much that I just want to shed some lights on the issues.

The Mamiya-Sekor 50 mm f:6.3 for the Universal and Press 23
was the most outstanding and remarkable wide lens I've ever owned.
<http://www.mamiyaleaf.com/assets/files/documentation/Universal_Lenses_and_DOF.pdf>

The lens, intended for 6 x 9, actually "almost" covered 4x5 in the studio.

And I've owned a slew of Super Angulons including: 21 mm 3.4 for M, 21 mm 4 for R, 90 mm, 121 mm, 165 mm;
and the 58 mm SA XL - which is the only one that actually out shined the Mamiya.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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