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

[Mark Rabiner]

In agreement with everything says I.


On 4/24/15 9:46 AM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:

> 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:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 4/23/15 5:44 PM, "George Lottermoser" <george.imagist at icloud.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> And the 60s through 80s 'blad Zeiss glass, that I own, definitely always
>>> pleases the eyes.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> George Lottermoser
>> 
>> 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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>> 
>> 
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