Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/30

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica-Users List Digest V2 #125
From: TEAShea@aol.com
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 23:29:40 EST

<<   > The Contax 21mm, by its published MTF, is the finest sub 28mm lens ever
to be > MTF'ed. Its performance on the bench would easily beat most 50mm's at
their best > apertures. As far as I know, this is the finest SLR 21mm ever
made.
 >  > Danny Gonzalez
  Danny,  Is the newly released 21 for the G2 the same formula and same
quality?
  >>

These lenses are entirely different.  Since the G lens does not need the
backfocus that the SLR needs, the Zeiss design is much smaller.  The SLR lens
is about 4 times as large. 

Tom Shea