Planar as well, Ardie. I have the 50mm F1.4, an excellent performer and planar type. Same for the 1.8 On 5/25/05, Ardeshir Mehta <ardeshir@xxxxxxx> wrote: >=20 > On 25-May-05, at 7:24 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote: >=20 > > [...] > > > > In any case, all of these lenses, five element and six element > > Planar/Xenotar, and the Leitz Summicron, are all members of the > > same family of lenses. >=20 > MOST instructive. Thanks. >=20 > BTW: does anyone (Richard?) know to which family the (modern) Canon > EF 50 mm f/1.8 lens belongs? (I'm NOT speaking of the 50 mm f/1.4 here.) >=20 > (I'd like to know since I have one of those for my EOS Elan 7, and it > comes highly recommended, optically speaking, even though it's quite > inexpensive). >=20 > Cheers. >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > --- > Rollei List >=20 > - Post to rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >=20 > - Subscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' > in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org >=20 > - Unsubscribe at rollei_list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with > 'unsubscribe' in the subject field OR by logging into www.freelists.org >=20 > - Online, searchable archives are available at > //www.freelists.org/archives/rollei_list >=20 >=20 --=20 Peter K =D3=BF=D5=AC --- 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