[Leica] new 1.5 50 Sonnar

[alal at duke.poly.edu (A. Lal)]

It is strange that Carl Zeiss would release this lens in the Nikon S mount, 
but not their own Contax mount, have they no pride or sense of history? Can 
you imagine Nikon today introducing a 35/1.8 or a 105/2.5 RF Nikkor in the M 
mount only?

There were not that many Nikon RF made, around  100+ k, while perhaps 10 
times as many Contaxes and Kievs were made. It is likely that Cosina is 
behind the decision to release this in S mount.  The 50/1.5 Cosina Nokton is 
still available to Nikon RF owners while Contax users cannot buy modern 
optics to put on their cameras. Very Strange.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Wednesday, 03 October, 2007 7:27 AM
Subject: [Leica] new 1.5 50 Sonnar


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> For Nikon rangefinder fans.
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> I notice that Zeiss has just announced a variant of the 1.5 50 Sonnar for 
> Nikon S mount.
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> Retro and too cool for school
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> <http://www.zeiss.com/C12567A8003B58B9?Open>
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> Cheers
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> Hoppy
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