Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/01

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Subject: Re: Barnack, Berek, Zeiss, and Leitz
From: gmrobinson@mmm.com
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 15:24:18 -0500

At 03:30 PM 8/1/97 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Zeiss, always has aimed at the absolute best performance
>on all optical parameters from its lenses.  

>msmall@roanoke.infi.net  

Rolleiflex and other medium and large format negatives until a few years
after World War II were routinely contact printed.  Classic cameras used
with modern films produce images that compare very favorably with images
from modern high quality lenses.  Why did Zeiss create lenses that produced
vastly more information than could be recorded on films at that time or
recovered?

Glen Robinson