Adam, >>>big hit in Nikon-land, that's only because the Nikon 50/1.4 is fairly >>>average in performance not because the Zeiss is legendary in its >>>performance. >> >>especially when it's Cosina Zeiss...
> Yet several of the Cosina-built Zeiss lenses outperform their Contax > predecessors. Notably the ZF 25/2.8(which is an entirely new design) and > the ZM 21/2.8. don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Cosina. Actually they are quite like Pentax and usually offer excellent value for money. But these "Carl Zeiss" lenses are far from that - Pentax own Limiteds are much better value IMO. BTW Contax(Kyocera)/Cosina doesn't matter, both are building lenses in some automated factory so I'd expect similar results. The price of original Zeiss/Leica glass is higher because of the labour cost involved (hand assembly, testing), while this is perhaps slightly above standard mass production with fancy name on top of it (an unnecessarily high price IMHO). Cheers, Peter -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
