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Subject: [Leica] Don't Trust Everything You Read On The Internet, or: 2 Myths of the Biogon Lens
From: george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:28:04 -0500
References: <CAF8hL-ErUc=sz+-+ou8RXKHGs_R8yBQXHfcweJ36YK26wc_YVA@mail.gmail.com> <8105bdcccb704beb9aa14f3715136733@WhizzEXM01.whizz.org> <CAF8hL-FoM92FXdcOKLL1hXHm3nXE_Fd=7=ubu-A=gknsYsbPqQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Apr 23, 2015, at 3:36 PM, Richard Man wrote:
> The Mamiya 7 43mm is a "better Biogon than the Biogon" myth has been
> repeated so much that I just want to shed some lights on the issues.
The Mamiya-Sekor 50 mm f:6.3 for the Universal and Press 23
was the most outstanding and remarkable wide lens I've ever owned.
<http://www.mamiyaleaf.com/assets/files/documentation/Universal_Lenses_and_DOF.pdf>
The lens, intended for 6 x 9, actually "almost" covered 4x5 in the studio.
And I've owned a slew of Super Angulons including: 21 mm 3.4 for M, 21 mm 4
for R, 90 mm, 121 mm, 165 mm;
and the 58 mm SA XL - which is the only one that actually out shined the
Mamiya.
Regards,
George Lottermoser
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
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