![]() ![]() Actually, the article goes to great length to express the extremely misterious circumstances with it: the 1.8 was an extraordinar, immense effort for Zeiss. ![]() This new 50mm f/1.4 was later purported to the Contax system (both the standard and the autofocus N-mount) and, with minor modifications, to modern DSLR: it is substantially the same Planar 1.4/50 currently marketed as ZE (Canon), ZF (Nikon) and ZK (Pentax).Įven the f1.8 was completely redesigned. A new lens was designed from scratch by Karl-Heinz Behrens and Erhard Glatzel in 1972. ![]() Again, Zeiss didn’t recycle the old (and somewhat unimpressive) Contarex Planar 1.4/55 nor the 1963 1.4/50 prototype. In those years Rollei requested a new, faster 50mm to be offered as a premium alternative to the f/1.8 model. That it ended up being delivered to Rollei first was a twist of fate. I'm not completely sure, but I believe that the 50 1.4 project was originally intended for the Contarex. ![]()
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