Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:24 PM 9/13/96 -0400,Brian Levy wrote: >possibly only Contax of past years would have or could cared >enough about technical excellence to have also done it on their >rangefinder lenses (which they didn't). The actual focal length of Contax RF 50mm lenses is 52.5mm, though minor variations occured as they did and do with Leica. Only the Russians have been honest on this: several runs of their Zeiss clone Jupiter-8 and -3 lenses have been marked as "53mm" and their books all so describe the lenses. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!