David Seifert: > The Planar IS the standard for fast lens design in the "normal" and > short tele range. Zeiss makes lots of very fast Planars for a variety > of cameras, most notably the recently defunct Kyocera/Contax line. The > 85/1.4 and 85/1.2 Planars are legendary as are the 50/1.4 and 50/1.2. > These are for 35mm cameras. In medium format Zeiss makes the formidable > (in quality and size) 110/2 Planar for Rollei and Hasselblad cameras. > Also don't forget the 80/2 Planar for the Contax 645. Lots of fine competition in fast normal lenses from Leica, Canon and others. Puts says the FD 55 1/2 Aspheric is probably the finest of the fast normals... Eric Goldstein --- 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