Digital BW, The Print

Austin, I've owned leica, Nikon and Canon. The canon lenses are
outstanding. As good as Leitz or Nikkor.

Jerry



Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> > You mean to say that the new digital contax can't use the current contax
> > lenses?  That is a really stupid marketing mistake!
> 
> Well, it depends on what you mean by "current".  The N1 is their new
> autofocus camera, and the D1 will use the same lenses.  Prior to that, the
> only autofocus camera Contax had in 35mm SLR is the AX, which DOES use the
> "regular" manual focus Zeiss lenses...which are absolutely stupendous
> lenses.  The AX autofocuses by moving the film plane, not the focus ring on
> the lense, which is why it can use the manual focus lenses.
> 
> > Jerry
> >
> > P.S., the canon lenses are pretty good!
> 
> If I was going to use Canon, they would have to compare to Leica or
> Contax/Zeiss in quality...so I hope they are better than "pretty good".
> 
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