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Re: Lens sets, Revere & Wollensak


  • From: P3D Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: Lens sets, Revere & Wollensak
  • Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 11:12:47 -0400

Harry Poster wrote:
>    I do have a Wollensak F2.7 lens and shutter assembly


Does anyone know the optical design of the Wollensak 2.7? Are they 4-in-3 tessar 
types? Are they coated? Front surface only? Has anyone tested them? Do they have 
good contrast/resulotion? Out to the corners? How do they compare with Zeiss 
Tessars or Ektars or Germany Realists or just plain old David White 2.8s?

In other words, is the Wollensak fixation driven by real performance or scarcity, 
legend and the collectors? My scepticism is largely driven by the "f/2.7" 
nomenclature, which seems to have been an attempt to make a marketing distinction 
relative to 2.8 lenses, which even if were true would be totally meaningless.


Eric G.
egoldste@xxxxxx


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