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Erwin Puts on Contarex lenses
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:43 am
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:43 am
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Short but meaningful text by Erwin Puts where he describes the characteristic of the Contarex lenses, where the control of astigmatism and field flatness is the priority over the overall contrast - a tendency that was inverted with the Contax lenses and the Leica-R lenses as well, which push strong on the micro-contrast (the lower of the MTF lines), but pay a price with introduced astigmatism and lateral chromatic aberration:

http://www.imx.nl/photo/zeiss/zeiss/page67.html

You can then integrate the reading with this very interesting long comparison article written by Marco Cavina, who compares some Contarex lenses with the more recent Contax versions:

http://www.luciolepri.it/lc2/marcocavina/articoli_fotografici/zeiss_contarex_mtf/00_pag.htm


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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 7:55 am
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A MUST READ for lens fans!


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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:57 am
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 5:57 am
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Does anybody have updated links for these articles or could upload them somewhere? Would be much appreciated!


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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 6:28 am
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Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 6:28 am
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Marco switched servers: http://www.marcocavina.com/articoli_fotografici/zeiss_contarex_mtf/00_pag.htm


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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 9:49 pm
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 9:49 pm
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Thanks Klaus and Orio


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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 10:37 pm
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http://web.archive.org/web/20100126001121/http://www.imx.nl/photo/zeiss/zeiss/page67.html


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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 9:19 am
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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 9:19 am
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It's a shame that Puts (whom I really respect a lot and like to read - despite his othographical flaws) has rearranged his website.
Now, we have to be really grateful for sites like the web archive!
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