[rollei_list] Re: Capa's Cameras
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:12:21 -0400
At 10:43 PM 9/26/2009, iusar4s@xxxxxxxx wrote:
I remember the earliest Nikon F "normal" and it
was a 58mm F1.4, not a 50mm. I owned one. It
was warm, and behaved like a big Biotar. The 50mm F1.4 was much sharper.
Now the SM leica-mount "normals" were a 50mm F2
and a 50mm F1.4, as I remember. I won the
F2. Duncan speaks of a 50mm F1.5, but I never
saw one. I happened on a 1950s (?) Cooke Amotal
50mm F1.4, and I REALLY wondered if some of the
early SM-Leica Nikon optics were not Deutschers
but rather pirates from Cooke...
My friend Donna Cooke (of that family) would love to hear an answer.
We have been discussing Nikon RF and not F
cameras. There are some differences in their lens ranges.
The Cook Amotal has no link at all to any German
optical designs or designers to my fairly certain
knowledge. It is a fine lens - I have owned
several, have use them to a fair extent, and have
written about them. The mount is exceeding crude
but, then, the lens was converted from the
Foton. There is also an Amotal in Contax RF mount which is far rarer.
There is a book out there written by an eminent
scholar which describes all of these things in detail!
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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