Sunday, April 07, 2002, 8:03:20 PM, Raimo wrote: RK> Russian (and Soviet) lenses are mostly copies of Zeiss designs. RK> All the best! RK> Raimo RK> Personal photography homepage at http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho
Certainly not all. There are quite many of them which are genuine inhouse designs IMHO. Also, many lenses from many manufacturers are just derived from earlier lenses, as are the USSR (not copies, derived). Like most primes, etc. It's the tweaking that makes a perfect lens often not a completely new design. Most 50 primes are very similar gaussian lenses, etc... The same for fabled 35/3.5 SMC which is the simplest wideangle possible, a simple Tessar with large negative element up front, completely same design as several cheapest 3rd party 35mm lenses out there. It's the tweaking that makes it good. And in the USSR, the Maksutov catadioptric design was made, too, which is among the best for mirror lenses. Well, I got on a little cardbox "soap" here ;-) Good light, Frantisek Vlcek - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
