[rollei_list] Re: [off-topic] The new Fuji will be sold ... and affordable ?
- From: "Richard Sintchak" <rich815@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 16:40:49 -0700
My experience with a few of these folders (Ikontas, Bessas, Super Dollys)
has been that the lenses can be great performers. It's the condition of the
camera and it's alignment that is the real issue. I've had Tessars that are
pin sharp, and others that are mush. I suspect it was likely the overall
alignment and not the lenses themselves....
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Goldstein" <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 2:38 PM
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: [off-topic] The new Fuji will be sold ... and
> affordable ?
>
>
> Hi Richard -
>>
>> That same piece states that the lens is an 80/3.5... not fast by any
>> criteria bit still the best information we have is that it is a
>> double-gauss type...
>>
>> I still think a 67/69 camera with an 80 similar to the Ektar available
>> for the small Graphic cameras would have been a winning combination,
>> and would not have competed with Fuji's "Texas Leica" GSW690
>> rangefinder...
>>
>>
>> Eric Goldstein
>>
>> The 105mm, f/3.7 Ektar is essentially the same lens as the 100mm f/3.5
> lens on the Medallist. Its a Heliar type but the patent claims that the
> extra element (beyond a Tessar) is used to correct "rim rays" so as to allow
> better performance at large openings. Kodak used this same design for its
> 50mm and 75mm Enlarging Ektars and at least one of the lenses for the Ektra
> camera, however, the Heliar design doesn not seem to have been popular with
> other designers.
>
>
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> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
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