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'Contax G and Contax C/Y are both well represented.'
But they are neither explicitly nor separately identified as such, as seen in: the ZE/ZF, Batis, Loxia, RX1, Leica M etc, Leica R series, Canon FD and so on and so forth, image threads. All titled as such, by range or mount, all very focused and successful in page view terms. Other image threads are buried down past p2. Below the fold it may as well not exist, like p2 of Google search results, viewed by 1-2% of users.
'Zeiss Lens Photos and Discussion' sounds vague and with mixed signals; it has accumulated only 255 pages in 5.5 years, and many pages are taken up with a lot of chat. It's a kind of 'Zeiss NEC' category - 'not elsewhere classified'.
From an information architecture POV - in which interfaces attempt to order content for the easy discoverability and enjoyment of the user base, ALL image threads would sit together in a dedicated image forum - 'Lens Range Images' forum or similar.
Such a forum would be very popular indeed. Images and image threads buried in a 'Gear Talk' forum of mostly camera brand names is not very transparent in the IA new users see - you have to know what you are looking for, in order to find it. In this day and age, it also would have the benefit of working from the lens not the camera, which better accords with the reality of photography in any case. Most use the same lenses on a variety of bodies over time, get similar results, give or take resolution, color - sensor attributes, effectively.
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