[Leica] Zeiss Normal 50mm f/2 Planar T* ZM

[douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)]

And what, pray, is so bad about Kyocera (aka Yashica) lenses?

In a relation performance to price, they knocked the socks off quite a 
few of the bigger manufacturers.

Their CY mount 2.8/55 Macro is close to being spectacular, and the 
3.5/21mm is up there with the best. The 2.8/135 Zeiss (possibly Kyocera 
- not sure) is also a superb lens.

Yashica's earlier fixed-lens RFs (GSN (1.7/45), 35 GX (1.7/40), etc.) 
delivered superb results, even wide open

Why does everybody still knock Yashica? - I grew up with their SLRs 
(Electro-X, FR, FX-D) and Contax SLRs (RTS, 137MD) long before I got my 
first Leica and always got great results.

Douglas





Mark Rabiner wrote:
>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Mark William Rabiner
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