[rollei_list] Re: e: OT: Leica vs. CZ lenses
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:08:42 -0500
At 02:40 PM 11/16/2009, Thor Legvold wrote:
>Hi Jan,
>
>He found the 85/2 Sonnar, the others I found myself. Apparently (Marc
>disagrees) there were several versions, and most are a bit soft.
Thor
Please be precise. I have never suggested that
there are not several variants of the 2/8.5cm and 2/85 Sonnar.
What I dispute is the Henry BS bit about the
lenses being "soft". They are not so, nor were
they, as Henry seems to have opined from his
customary pinnacle of ignorance, intended as a
soft-focus portraiture lens. We have the
complete documentary history of this lens and it
was intended as a razor-sharp reportage lens and
was marketed exactly as that.
I have NEVER seen or heard of a "soft" 2/85
Sonnar save for the lenses which have been
serviced by someone like Henry who probably does
not know what they are doing and gets the
elements out of order of the like. The lens was
intended to be as sharp as it could be, and it is so.
If you EVER receive a "soft" 2/85 Sonnar, get it
over to someone like John Van Stelten who knows
what he is doing and, obviously, keep it as far
as possible from Henry as you can, as he seems to
have demonstrated an ignorance of how to properly
service the lens. It would be nice for him to
admit that he doesn't know what he is
doing. Instead, he invents the bogus tale of the
2/85 Sonnar being a "soft" lens and nice guys like you fall for such claptrap.
It is best to avoid the Henry BS lectures and his
many foolish statements. We have been studying
the Contax RF system and the CZJ lens output for
some decades, and Henry occasionally pops out
with some corkers which run directly in the face
of known facts and a strong documentary trail.
Marc
msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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