Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] [off topic] Contax G list
From: Claes Bjerner <claes.bjerner@pi.se>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 98 22:22:29 -0000

>
>I subscribed to the Contax G list a couple of days ago, and 
>got the usual acknowledgement of successful signon, but
>that was my last message from it!  Does anyone happen
>to know anything about the list and whether it is active or
>not?
>
>Not that I'm a Contax G user, but I am interested in a 
>comparison of the Leica M system with the Contax G
>(particularly in terms of lens quality), and was hoping to
>gain some insight from "lurking".  If anyone has any
>relevant information (hard facts preferable!) eg MTF
>graph comparisons I would be very interested to hear
>from you - privately if you feel it is off topic.  Also if
>there is any similar information on the Konica Hexar
>lens I would be grateful for that too.
>
>Thanks.
>Simon.

Hi Simon!

I too subscribe to the ContaxG list, but have not received their mail =
for the past two days. Maybe it=B4s not a very active list or =
something is very wrong. 

Regarding comparisons between the Gs and the Ms there is a rather =
nice web page:

http://www.novia.net/~jlw/contax/index.html

Why don=B4t you check it out? 

BTW, the only reason I=B4ve got a G2 is the Zeiss 16mm Hologon that =
go with it! But I have no reason to suspect that the other Contax =
Zeiss lenses are much inferior to the Leica lenses. Not very much =
anyway! Except the Hologon I also have a Zeiss 28mm Biogon and a =
Planar 45mm. They do the job quite nicely, but, of course, I do =
prefer my Leica gear.

Claes Bjerner