12 Mar
2016
12 Mar
'16
4:34 a.m.
On 12/03/2016, at 12:54 PM, Marco Gariboldi <mgariboldi at gmail.com> wrote:
And it doesn't have those silly focussing tabs Leitz has on their lens. I much prefer
a focussing ring you can actually grab. My lens are 2nd hand and black though, and so look
a bit odd on the old silver Leicas. Been looking to replace them with silver ones, but
they show up less often on eBay.
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"END OF LINE" [MCP, 1982]
2016-03-12 0:06 GMT+01:00 Roland Schregle
<roland.schregle at gmail.com>:
Hi Marco,
could have been the Biometar. I recall reading about it in Prochnow's Rollei Report,
but I don't have that at hand now.
Have the Tessar on a 3.5B (aka MX-EVS). Excellent expect when wide open as
mentioned here, though I wouldn't call it entry level. I think Zeiss made
an earlier, sub-standard lens (Biotar ?) for Rollei before they could
deliver 75mm Tessars.
Biotar sub-standard? Germans happily used them on their film cameras,
rather extensively during WW II. I think you might be thinking of the Jena
(GDR) Biometar instead, which later became known as Pentacon. Somebody
mentioned the Zeiss ZM line for Leica. Have the f/2.8 35mm Biogon
and the f/2 50mm Planar for my M3 and M2. These perform very close to the
original Leitz glass, but are at least affordable for mere mortals.
Indeed and, more importantly, I'm very happy with my Biogon. Plus, that
blue orb also looks nice.