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Subject: [Leica] Zeiss Otus
From: steve.barbour at gmail.com (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:37:24 -0800
References: <CF04AEEF.16CED%mark@rabinergroup.com>

On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> When I hear that brand I always think of ""Miss Otis Regrets" is a song by
> Cole Porter from 1934." a song I recorded off the radio in Portland and
> listened to in my darkroom on a portable cassette fm player until I wore 
> out
> the tape. Off of KBOO. I'm pretty sure it was Carmen McRae though it was
> covered by most of the Jazz greats.

(among them Ella Fitzgerald, though first sung on stage by Douglas Byng, in 
1934).

s


> 
> Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today, madam
> Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today
> She is sorry to be delayed
> But last evening down in Lover's Lane she strayed, madam
> Miss Otis regrets she's unable to lunch today
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/21/14 10:18 PM, "Jeffery Smith" <jsmith342 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Flektogon had to be one of the worst. Practically a promise that there is
>> something on one of the elements.
>> Wasn't one of the lenses named after a pet dog? If so, I'd be willing to 
>> buy a
>> Molliegon or a Mikeygon.
>> 
>> Sent from my iPad
>> 
>>> On Jan 21, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Ken Carney <kcarney1 at cox.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I thought Otus was a redneck name.  Oh wait, that's Cleetus.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 1/21/2014 8:27 PM, Richard Man wrote:
>>>> Touit and Otus?!
>>>> 
>>>> What happened to Gauss, Tessar, Distagon, Biogon and the legendary 
>>>> Hologon?
>>>> :-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Mark Rabiner <mark at 
>>>>> rabinergroup.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm going to have to just come out and say it:
>>>>> Any personal lens test which indicates the glass from Zeiss ultra 
>>>>> premium
>>>>> lens lines (what Zeiss had always been about) as being less than
>>>>> Supercalifragilistic in every way points to the lens tester not the 
>>>>> lens.
>>>>> Those soft boxes are way too big and the angle is too steep reflecting
>>>>> glare
>>>>> off the paper and off white wall right back into the lens. Plus they 
>>>>> have
>>>>> no
>>>>> baffling on the edges that are flush with the front surface so we are
>>>>> getting glare right into the camera from the soft boxes themselves. 
>>>>> (the
>>>>> lens hood it not huge)
>>>>> The test results  I've seen so far from 55mm f/1.4 Otus Apo Distagon T*
>>>>> resets the bar on modern lens design period. Outdoes Leica glass. 
>>>>> Though if
>>>>> Leica M glass had a two pound  weight parameter  I'm sure it could 
>>>>> give the
>>>>> Zeiss for SLR  more than a run for its money.   ( f/0.95 Noctilux-M 
>>>>> 1.54
>>>>> lbs)
>>>>> 
>>>>> The 55mm f/1.4 Otus Apo Distagon T* is not an exceedingly great lens.
>>>>> Its an over the top impossibly great lens which spares nothing and 
>>>>> takes no
>>>>> prisoners.
>>>>> Glass which Zeiss outsources for the consumer market is never intended 
>>>>> to
>>>>> be
>>>>> in the same category of Otus leaving no regrets.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 1/21/14 11:17 AM, "Paul Roark" <roark.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm not sure the Otus is worth the weight disadvantage in light of how
>>>>> good
>>>>>> the Zeiss that is made for the Sony is.  See
>>>>> http://3d-kraft.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151&catid=
>>>>> 40&
>>>>>> Itemid=2&limitstart=1
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Also, my metabones M to E adapter was terrible (Novoflex fine).  It 
>>>>>> has
>>>>>> made me reluctant to buy the metabones Canon to E adapter, though many
>>>>> seem
>>>>>> to use it.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Paul
>>>>>> www.PaulRoark.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at 
>>>>>> gmail.com
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>> Steve Barbour
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jan 20, 2014, at 11:10 PM, "Frank Filippone" <red735i at 
>>>>>>> verizon.net>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Popflash has an Otus in stock...  I think it fits the Sony, but not
>>>>> sure..
>>>>>>> for Canon
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Frank Filippone
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Red735i at verizon.net
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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