----Marc James Small wrote: <Eric: <YOU are the one who has consistently raised <retrofocus lenses as being necessary for normal <lenses. You and Carlos have been off on a fast <run through broken country. Perhaps the two of <you mis-spoke but it seemed to this innocent soul <that the both of you were stating that normal <(80mm) lenses for medium-format cameras had to be <of a retrofocus design. Yes, you said <this. Yes, Carlos let this slide. Marc, since I was discussing trying to demonstrate that the Biometar 2.8/80 was a normal lens without retrofocus design, my position about this issue is evident and clear and as you can read in one of my posts, I believed Eric was joking about this topic. We discussed the retrofocus design for wide angle lens several times in the past here and a retrofocus design for SLRs wide angle lens was out of discussion. Anyway, I'm not sure if some of those complex Planar and Xenotar for SLR cameras don't have some slight retrofocus effect.- Carlos ____________________________________________________________________________________ ¡Buscá desde tu celular! Yahoo! oneSEARCH ahora está en Claro http://ar.mobile.yahoo.com/onesearch --- Rollei List - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org - Online, searchable archives are available at //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list