Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug, somebody out there always knows really obscure stuff about Leica and everything Leica, like your tidbit on the US Navy photographing Soviet ships with the 180 APO-Telyt. Sartorius also mentioned that with the APO Extender-R 2x, the 180 was transformed into a 360mm f6.8 lens with "truly remarkable results." So I guess that somewhere in the vast archives of the Navy there's a whole pile of enormously expensive 2x extenders, APO lenses and Leica R's. I may have already told my own story of spy cameras but some time ago, at a garage sale, I ran into a guy who worked for the NSA, the government spy agency, as a scientist of some kind. We got to talking about the NSA and, although he was not too willing to discuss any aspect of his work, I gathered from the tone of our little conversation that the NSA uses Hasselblads for some of their secret stuff. regards, bob cole