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**David Nebenzahl** · February 17th 11, 06:47 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.large-format

On 2/17/2011 9:23 AM spake thus:

On 2/17/2011 2:32 AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:

If your Wide-Field Ektar has satisfactory contrast and color
rendering its a good indication that the problem with the C-E was
not the coating. The WF Ektar has the same coating plus it has
_four_ glass-air surfaces.

That's true and I do use a LOT of cameras from that time period with
single coated and even uncoated lenses so I'm not sure what the issue was.

Another experience, I ran into the same sort of problem with a 135mm
xenar LF lens. It was a -horrible- lens where the 75mm xenar on my
rolleicord is a wonderful one. So just because a lens has more elements
in my experience doesn't mean it's always a better performer.

Well, that particular lens seems to have a universally bad reputation,
based on what I've read and on at least one actual experience (not me,
but someone else who had one and didn't like it). Strange, since the
name "Xenar" usually denotes exceptionally high quality, at least in
other forms ...

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