philip_pj wrote:
rico, I looked through the CY production and was surprised to see the zooms being a very small percentage of overall counts. Easy to see why they concentrated on primes ever since, the irony being they were so good at the zooms.
Well, "they" includes Tomioka as owned by Yashica and Kyocera. Oberkochen only produced select lenses to jump-start the Contax RTS product line. 1974 was not the Golden Era of high performance zooms, and most designs in the CZ library were primes. By the time zooms in general didn't suck, Contax and film technology were going the way of the dodo. Given the pixel explosion of modern sensors, I feel that zooms are once again struggling to perform acceptably, and primes (again) rule the roost. I just don't believe in zooms above 3x except for drunken partycams!
Nov 16, 2017 at 10:35 PM
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