I am always happy to stir the pot on an obscure Rolleiflex question. And I'm feeling my oats these days: Melanie is expecting our first child, a boy! So life is good. (BTW, Melanie sends her regards to Richard and Slobodan.) Back on subject ... Peter, when you opine that they are "probably" identical, that can mean only two thing: Either (1) Schneider made conforming changes to the Xenar to match the reformulated lanthanum Tessar, or else (2) Zeiss's reformulation of the Tessar did not improve the lens. Which was it? Sanders On Mar 21, 2009, at 1:07 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote:
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:28:13 -0800 Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Whiteface T with Xenar question From: "Peter K." <peterk727@xxxxxxxxx>Wow! What a thread you started. Sanders, they are probably 99% identical. Coatings developed by Schneider would be the major difference IMO as theyare the hardest to duplicate. By the 70s Schneider had much better andharder coatings. Their coatings of the 50s were not nearly as good or ashard as later years. So the short answer, yes.
