Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i got a voightlander prominent with 1.5 nokton included in a lot i once bought. have it but have never tested the lens as the camera itself is zilch. hovever before knocking the price note its designer tronnier was right behind bertelli in creating without hal's help most of the great optics of the century. bertelli of course is the alltime leitz nemesis, creating all of the contaxs superior optics, including the sonnars and the biogon, as well as most of hasselblads superior optics. in fact it was may have been at attempt to equal the f1,5 sonnar that let to the nokton about 1950. at schneider tronnier created the angulon before ww2, the super angulon after and the incredible xenotar. nikon used this formular for their micronikkor for the rf(cost as much as the l.1), changed their 105 f2.5 to this formula and stated in their spec sheet that their l05 fl.8 was modified xenotar. all prejudices aside, rollei 2.8 xenotar now is the acknoweldged winner in germany over the planar, which if you look closely is a xenotar backwards. any one who has the 150 f2.8 xenotar knows it will never be surpassed : its lanthanam glass gone with the schott works. at voightlander tronnier produced the apo-skopar and legendary apo-lanthar f4.5. this tweaked the exotically soft 5-element heliar into an apo four times faster than had ever been available. it should also be noted the every modern tele for large format is based on his 5 element telemar, that includes schneider,fuji, nikkor. so if the bidder knows the above he's not the idiot he seems . ralph > From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 14:01:54 -0400 > To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: Re: [Leica] Nokton 50/1.5 > > Rich Lahrson jotted down the following: > >> What is this lens? Is it not the current Nokton? Why is it selling >> for $1800 on eBay? >> >> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=369964487 >> > > The high bidder's name is 'superpsycho'. Seems appropriate ;) > > M. > > -- > Martin Howard | Trying to determine human performance by > Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU | experiments is nothing but the ritual of > email: howard.390@osu.edu | The Ballet for the Gods of Invariance. > www: http://mvhoward.i.am/ +------------------------------------------- > >