Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/06

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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss Normal 50mm f/2 Planar T* ZM
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:33:35 -0400
 
> Although I now shoot Leica R8 and 9, I previously shot a lot with the
> Contax RX and RTSII.  The on-camera lens was always the Carl Zeiss
> Planar 50/1.4.  Back then Carl Zeiss Germany and Japan used Schott
> billets for their lens blanks.


Except that there was no Carl no Germany you were shooting with a Kyocera
lens which is why it cost 200 bucks and not 2000.


Mark William Rabiner
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