Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bearing in mind that Yashica/Kyocera was the first Japanese JV partner of venerable Carl Zeiss Joseph / Singapore -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg at leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg at leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Sharp Sent: Wednesday, 7 October, 2009 4:29 PM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Zeiss Normal 50mm f/2 Planar T* ZM And what, pray, is so bad about Kyocera (aka Yashica) lenses? In a relation performance to price, they knocked the socks off quite a few of the bigger manufacturers. Their CY mount 2.8/55 Macro is close to being spectacular, and the 3.5/21mm is up there with the best. The 2.8/135 Zeiss (possibly Kyocera - not sure) is also a superb lens. Yashica's earlier fixed-lens RFs (GSN (1.7/45), 35 GX (1.7/40), etc.) delivered superb results, even wide open Why does everybody still knock Yashica? - I grew up with their SLRs (Electro-X, FR, FX-D) and Contax SLRs (RTS, 137MD) long before I got my first Leica and always got great results. Douglas Mark Rabiner wrote: >> Although I now shoot Leica R8 and 9, I previously shot a lot with the >> Contax RX and RTSII. The on-camera lens was always the Carl Zeiss >> Planar 50/1.4. Back then Carl Zeiss Germany and Japan used Schott >> billets for their lens blanks. >> > > > Except that there was no Carl no Germany you were shooting with a > Kyocera lens which is why it cost 200 bucks and not 2000. > > > Mark William Rabiner > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >