An 80/3.5 with 6 in 4 construction (likely a view-camera style Plasmat type) is probably a very highly corrected lens, though some folks don't like Fuji lenses on the soft measures... I believe the APO Lanthars were dialyte-types and not too sure how serious we should take that APO designation... Eric Goldstein -- On 9/30/08, Jan Decher <Jan.Decher@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Great move indeed. Bessa III is a nice choice of name. But no Apo Lanthar > ;-( > > Wonder why this was not ready for Photokina? Can't be rocketscience to > design it. > > Perhaps this will inspire Zeiss Oberkochen to respond with a REAL modern > Super Ikonta with a Zeiss Planar or re-computed Tessar for one of their next > anniversaries....;-) > > Jan > > > > =====On Sep 30, 2008, at 2:02 AM, FreeLists Mailing List Manager wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:06:44 +0200 > From: Emmanuel Bigler <Emmanuel.Bigler@xxxxxxxx> > Subject: [rollei_list] [completely OFF-TOPIC ;-)] The new Fuji will be sold > as. > > [completely OFF-TOPIC ;-)] > > The "future" 6x6 - 6x7 folding camera for 120 rollfilm presented by > Fuji some type ago has been presented again at the 2008 Photokina in > Cologne. > It will be sold as "Bessa III" oustide Japan. > > See the BJP web site for more details & images. > http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=816821 > http://www.1854.eu/2008/09/live_from_photokina_fujis_medi.html > > --- 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