Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/20

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT - was Digital - Rumor Mongering long, now Contax
From: Henning Wulff <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:01:29 -0800
References: <NABBLIJOIFAICKBIEPJJCELJEFAB.darkroom@ix.netcom.com>

At 6:46 PM -0500 2/20/03, Austin Franklin wrote:
>  > >> the Contax SLR's have
>>  >> been basically non-competitive because the glass is generally slow
>>  >
>>  > WHAT?  Are you dipping in the left over egg-nog again?  SLOW?  Yeah,
>>  > 85/1.2,
>>  >
>>
>>  Contax has an 85/1.2?  I thought Canon was alone in this feat.
>
>Contax has an 85/1.2.  It is very expensive, but it exists.
>
>Austin

Wasn't the 85/1.2 a special edition only available for a very short 
time a number of years ago, and subsequently they went back to the 
85/1.4? Seems I read that somewhere. Their present fast 85 is the 1.4.

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