Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tipoff..... The EL Nikkor enlarging lenses are reputed to have better UV ( actually blue) light handling capability than almost any current lens out there... and they are cheap. The best ones are said to be the ones that have the letter "A" on them.....try a 80, 135 , 150 or 105 on a bellows for focusing. Look for " 135 El Nikkor A " for a really cheap lens..... Leica content? They are all in LTM. Break out that Visoflex....... Frank Filippone red735i@earthlink.net I really don't know about the UV sensitivity. I don't have any lenses that I know transmit UV reasonably, and the Leica lenses themselves have very good internal UV filtering, so that doesn't work. I also don't have any UV pass filters. The only lens I could readily mount on the M8 that possibly has UV transmissivity is a 120 Photar. But then, I had to give the M8 back.