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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss Otus
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:18:02 -0600
References: <CAJ3Pgh5FrVbioLNRN=0Z3mozv0E+-Rbg7XN-ERZgHO97hNiUhA@mail.gmail.com> <CF04786D.16CAE%mark@rabinergroup.com> <GqTQ1n00u0AFV7C01qTRwf> <52DF2E49.1090402@cox.net>

Flektogon had to be one of the worst. Practically a promise that there is 
something on one of the elements.
Wasn't one of the lenses named after a pet dog? If so, I'd be willing to buy 
a Molliegon or a Mikeygon.

Sent from my iPad

> On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
> 
> I thought Otus was a redneck name.  Oh wait, that's Cleetus.
> 
> 
>> On 1/21/2014 8:27 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>> Touit and Otus?!
>> 
>> What happened to Gauss, Tessar, Distagon, Biogon and the legendary 
>> Hologon?
>> :-)
>> 
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I'm going to have to just come out and say it:
>>> Any personal lens test which indicates the glass from Zeiss ultra premium
>>> lens lines (what Zeiss had always been about) as being less than
>>> Supercalifragilistic in every way points to the lens tester not the lens.
>>> Those soft boxes are way too big and the angle is too steep reflecting
>>> glare
>>> off the paper and off white wall right back into the lens. Plus they have
>>> no
>>> baffling on the edges that are flush with the front surface so we are
>>> getting glare right into the camera from the soft boxes themselves. (the
>>> lens hood it not huge)
>>> The test results  I've seen so far from 55mm f/1.4 Otus Apo Distagon T*
>>> resets the bar on modern lens design period. Outdoes Leica glass. Though 
>>> if
>>> Leica M glass had a two pound  weight parameter  I'm sure it could give 
>>> the
>>> Zeiss for SLR  more than a run for its money.   ( f/0.95 Noctilux-M 1.54
>>> lbs)
>>> 
>>> The 55mm f/1.4 Otus Apo Distagon T* is not an exceedingly great lens.
>>> Its an over the top impossibly great lens which spares nothing and takes 
>>> no
>>> prisoners.
>>> Glass which Zeiss outsources for the consumer market is never intended to
>>> be
>>> in the same category of Otus leaving no regrets.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 1/21/14 11:17 AM, "Paul Roark" <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm not sure the Otus is worth the weight disadvantage in light of how
>>> good
>>>> the Zeiss that is made for the Sony is.  See
>>> http://3d-kraft.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151&catid=40&;
>>>> Itemid=2&limitstart=1
>>>> 
>>>> Also, my metabones M to E adapter was terrible (Novoflex fine).  It has
>>>> made me reluctant to buy the metabones Canon to E adapter, though many
>>> seem
>>>> to use it.
>>>> 
>>>> Paul
>>>> www.PaulRoark.com
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at 
>>>> gmail.com
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> Steve Barbour
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 20, 2014, at 11:10 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at 
>>>>> verizon.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Popflash has an Otus in stock...  I think it fits the Sony, but not
>>> sure..
>>>>> for Canon
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Frank Filippone
>>>>> 
>>>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>> 
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