> From: Philip Chudy shoot some tech pan with a 30 year old zeiss hologon 15mm and > compare that with a contemporary SLR equivalent to see how (in that > case) designing a lens which could almost touch the film (there was a > special camera body which came with the lens) permitted amazing edge to > edge quality and lack of distortion which is still hard to match. Make > that lens today with all these new material/design enhancements and it > would be 'way ahead' of everything else.
Phil added, Oops - might have been 13mm and 40 years old Dear Philip, I believe this is the same 16mmm f8 Zeiss lens which is still available to fit the Contax G2 rangefinder. I used to use a (borrowed) Hologon camera with 16/f8 for shooting landscapes and this was my prime motivation for buying a G2. You are only the second person I know to have used and fallen in love with this optic. I'll sign off now before I'm accused of being an anorak :) Cheers, Mark. =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
