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35/1.4 aeg is better and if you have rollei 35/1.4 is much better and they are machine polished and not moulded glass of its aspherical element.
I hear this from internet too but there are some questions, any official document has mention about this? I never found any information that about the german version is machine polished and japan version is moulded glass from official.
but I found those people talking about this even dont know which glass is the aspherical lens of D35/1.4!
I should have posted this link long long time ago. A good reference from a Japanese webpage which mentioned about the change on manufacturing method of the aspherical surface of Distagon 35/1.4 (as in paragraph 2):
http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~eg3y-ssk/ph ... 2j/g2j.htm
Although there is no official announcement / evidence either, he (the webmaster had appeared in an interview of a Japanese magazine which was dedicated for CONTAX cameras, so I know he should be "he") do stated an interesting point. That is, comparing the price of CONTAX lenses in the 80's and year 2000, most of the Made in Germany lenses do have a huge raise over the years, e.g
Distagon 15/3.5 from 306500 yen (1983) to 700000 yen (2000)
PC-Distagon 35/2.8 from 196000 yen (1983) to 390000 yen (2000)
F-Distagon 16/2.8 from 180000 yen (1983) to 475000 yen (2000)
And for the Planar 100/2, AEG version was priced at 141000 yen during 1981, while MMJ version was to be 178000 yen at 2000. So generally most CONTAX lenses do have an inflated price over the years.........except for Distagon 35/1.4 in which:
Price in 1983 = 182000 yen
Price in 2000 = 168000 yen
And this should be the only lens which encounter a price reduction over the years.......
The webmaster also quoted example for Sonnar 85/2.8, for which:
Price of AEG = 82000 yen
Price of AEJ = 55000 yen
Price of MMG = 75000 yen
He also mentioned about the lens weight issue, but no actual data had been quoted and too bad 極樂堂 had closed the page on weight comparison for different version of D35/1.4:
http://contax1.hp.infoseek.co.jp/weight/
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We may cross check the prices he quoted from the homepage of 極樂堂 (in which the price of the year he quoted may not be exactly correct, but the trend of the price he mentioned should be 100% correct)
Let us check the price of 1989 and 1990:
Distagon 35/1.4 AEG (1989) - 178000 yen
Distagon 35/1.4 MMG (1989) - 187000 yen
Distagon 35/1.4 MMJ (1990) - 168000 yen
http://zeiss.hp.infoseek.co.jp/yc-lens.htm
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A bit off topic if one would like to learn a bit more on Distagon 35/1.4...................
Another Italian webpage discuss about the origin of the Ditstagon 35/1.4 (Should be close relatives of Distagon 35/1.2 of Arriflex)
http://www.luciolepri.it/lc2/marcocavin ... 00_pag.htm