[rollei_list] Re: silliness
- From: Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 08:39:21 -0500
Have had a cord Vb for 20 years. Xenar. I have had great luck with
xenon lenses on 35s as well...
PJ Nebergall
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:44:19 -0700 (PDT) Jerry Friedman
<tinycameraco@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> ......anyway, Peter, what I forgot to ask you was this: You wrote
> that you like
> old xenars........HEY! What are you a smart guy or soemthing?
> What's wrong
> with Tessars????? Everybody knows that Tessars are better than
> Xenars........:>)
>
>
> Jerry F.
>
> --- Jerry Friedman <tinycameraco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Dear Peter:
> >
> > I have no idea why you should think that this is a silly argument
> despite the
> > fact that everything you say is obvious and certainly true. What?
> Are we to
> > give up one of our favorite pastimes? What would you have us do?
> Whinny about
> > the differences between Leica and Contax or shimmy between
> Japanese glass and
> > German glass?? Clearly, THIS is a debate that has the merit of
> time, even if
> > it
> > lacks sense. How else might we justify that we spent too much
> money on a
> > Xenotar or a Planar if we can not decry the other's obviously
> foolish
> > purchase
> > of the other?
> >
> > Your points are all well taken and well understood by all of us.
> Understood
> > by
> > all of us, I say, ......almost as much as we understand...... how
> much better
> > Planars are than Xenotars. :>)
> >
> >
> >
> > Jerry F.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Peter J Nebergall <iusar4s@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > The Planar-Xenotar argument reminds me of the great rivalry
> between Liszt
> > > and Chopin. Folks were constantly and noisily debating their
> merits, and
> > > a tesrt was resolved. As I remember the story, a black curtain
> was hung
> > > between the piano and the audience. First each man played his
> own
> > > material, then, out of sight, each man tried to fool the
> audience into
> > > thinking the other was playing... In fact, Liszt did fool the
> audience
> > > into thinking he was Chopin -- but Chopin could not fool anyone
> into
> > > thinking he was Liszt (except in the Cockney sense!)
> > >
> > > Now -- can anyone tell the difference between the pictures, just
> looking
> > > at the pictures?
> > > otherwise its close to a "difference that makes no difference..."
> > >
> > > Can anyone fool you into thinking its one when it was the other?
> > >
> > > I like my old Xenons and Xenars... esp for B&W -- but I don't
> have a
> > > planar...
> > >
> > > Because, just as "there's only one beautiful child, and every
> mother has
> > > it," people will sing the praises of their own lens...
> > >
> > > Hey, I even have a soviet-era "zenitar" which appears to be a CZ
> J
> > > Pancolar in a macro mount...'
> > >
> > > PJ Nebergall
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