At 08:19 PM 11-08-99 +0100, you wrote:
>John Hudson wrote:
>>Has this anything to do with the two competing Houses of Zeiss .... the one
>>in the former Federal Republic of Germany and the other in the former DDR?
>
>Yes, I think they were from the former Demokratische Republik (I assumed
>from the importers' name in the advertisements at the time). I have never
>seen any results from them but East German lenses weren't well regarded in
>UK dealers' circles, possibly unfairly based on the ubiquitous Trioplans and
>Domiplans.
>
>Regards,
>Keith Berry (Birmingham, England)
>keith_r.k.berry@xxxxxxxxxx
I thought that Exacta cameras and lenses were highly regarded in the UK or
at least they were in the mid to late 60's and early 70s. They were from
east Germany?
jh
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