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

[George Lottermoser]

I'm pretty sure that the tree photo that Richard posted was made with the 38 biogon on the SWC. Which was, I believe, a "relatively" symmetrical design; not retrofocus.

My reference to other Zeiss lenses was simply to imply that qualities other than "sharpness come to life with top shelf lens designs.

a note off the iPad, George

On Apr 23, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

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>> On 4/23/15 5:44 PM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
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>> And the 60s through 80s 'blad Zeiss glass, that I own, definitely always
>> pleases the eyes.
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>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
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> George the Hassy wides, 40 through 60 were as I'm sure you know retrofocal
> wides just like you'd find on any SLR or beam splitter unite camera its not
> symmetrical at all as there has to be nothing going backwards into the
> camera body very much getting in the way of stuff.
> But in the case of these Zeiss Distagon's made for a Hassy and also perhaps
> for Rollei and Alpa these were beyond the standards of the industry. They
> were the premium choice for medium format wide angle photography and roll
> film just like Leitz was for 35mm. If you used a medium format back on a
> view or technical camera perhaps you'd get to shoot with Schneider Super
> Angulon (SSA) and just typing those words out makes my heart skip a beat.
> The look the Zeiss Distagon's brought to the image is imbedded in our
> collective minds from all the commercial and magazine photography we'd ever
> seen especially before they got competition from the Japanese camera
> industry in the 80's with medium format Mamiya, Bronica and Pentax which
> undercut them by quite a bit on the price point.
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> Mark William Rabiner
> Photographer
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