Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] very very very sharp lens
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 11:59:37 -0800
References: <B65A9232.709D%john@pinkheadedbug.com>

Johnny Deadman wrote:
> 
> I know this will interest at least one person on this list.
> 
> A whiles ago I bought a really beat up Rolleiflex T2 for somewhat less than
> a new M baseplate. The lens had a fair few cleaning marks and it had been
> around the world so I wasn't even sure the ground glass was still in
> alignment. Anyhow, I shot a few rolls with it but really forgot about it for
> the longest while. Anyhow, having bought an Epson 1640 flatbed which is
> actually half-decent at scanning MF, and having also bought a super-sharp
> Rodenstock 4x loupe (lovely thing!), I dug them out.
> 
> Yoinks!
> 
> Now I see what Mark Rabiner is going on about when he (heretically and half
> jokingly) claims his Rolleiflex is sharper than his Hassie.
> 
> And I had called this camera a dog! It's now looking like an extraordinary
> bargain.
> 
> Still a problem with some internal reflections which I think needs tackling
> with matte paint, but still.
> 
> --
> John Brownlow
> 
Johnny! The 80mm Zeiss Planar's on my Hasselblad and IN my Rolleiflex are the
same it seems in name only!!!
The lens for my Hasselblad is a CF T* coated.
The lens in my Rolleiflex 2.8 F type 2 is not T* or otherwise super multicoated
(early 1970's) but it's advantage apparently from what i learn on Marc James
Small's Rollei list (the RUG) is it's internal baffling.
Although the fact that is is a different optical formula might also be an issue.
I just see it as the difference between ad on glass and built in glass.
The difference is baffling? :)
Thought the Rolleiflex had a fraction of the parts of a Hasselblad but maybe not.
Certainly no mirrors, bouncing or otherwise!

mark rabiner
:)
Rolleiflex: the best deal in photography!

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