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Subject: [Leica] Early 35 'cron
From: sethrosner at nycap.rr.com (Seth Rosner)
Date: Thu Mar 10 03:03:48 2005
References: <EC8FD164-9106-11D9-8389-000D932E0DA0@depaul.edu> <aadceaa32cebb14ec27f9aa435d5c083@charter.net>

A great, great lens, Slobodan. Geoffrey Crawley, Editor-in-chief of the 
British Journal of Photography in the 1960's and 70's, called it the 
connoisseur's lens. At the time he wrote that it is the best possible 
balance of contrast and resolution. The successor lens tipped the balance in 
favor of high contrast, especially at full aperture.

Seth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Slobodan Dimitrov" <s.dimitrov@charter.net>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Early 35 'cron


> Speaking of 'crons. I still kick myself for getting rid of my first 
> generation 3 cam 50mm 'cron-R. I still have the elpros for it. As I'm a 
> Rolleinar user, I don't find the elpros inconveinent.
> S. Dimitrov
>
>
>
> On Mar 9, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Bob Palmieri wrote:
>
>> Folks -
>>
>> When I was up in Rochester in the 70's I studied "Modern Camera Design" 
>> (as they called the course) with a heavy guy from Kodak named Rudolph 
>> Kingslake. I recall that he was quite enamored of that 8 element 35 
>> 'cron.  In fact, he wrote the chapter on lenses in the Encyclopedia of 
>> Photography, and I believe he used more photographic examples from that 
>> particular lens than any other.
>>
>> I also recall that the MTF charts seem to indicate that it outperforms 
>> the 4th gen stopped down, but is considerably worse wide open.
>>
>> Bob Palmieri
>>
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> Slobodan Dimitrov
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In reply to: Message from rpalmier at depaul.edu (Bob Palmieri) ([Leica] Early 35 'cron)
Message from s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov) ([Leica] Early 35 'cron)