[rollei_list] Re: Tessars
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 22:12:55 -0400
At 09:58 PM 5/31/2007, Richard Knoppow wrote:
> How did you determine the age of the two lenses?
> Zeiss held a great many patents for Tessar type lenses.
>Its nearly impossible to determine which are for production
>lenses. Note that the Kodak Ektar is a Tessar type lens and
>generally outperforms Zeiss lenses of the same era, so its
>possible to make a better Tessar.
Richard
On the first point, I would suspect that the ages
were determined by serial numbers. If Peter
would share the body and lens serial numbers with
us, it would make our task a bit easier.
On the second point, I splutter in
protest. Kodak made many a fine Tessar-derived
Ektar but to make a blanket statement of the sort
you made is simply to make yourself appear
foolish. In an era of hand-assembled lenses, it
is undoubtedly true that a given Kodak Ektar on a
given day could outperform a given Zeiss Tessar,
but to suggest that the Kodak lenses inevitably
outperformed the incapable lenses produced by
those hapless jerks at Zeiss seems to be
stretching the case quite a bit more than the record permits.
Marc
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