[Leica] Is the TE a zoom?

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 6:07 PM +0000 2/3/08, Steve Unsworth wrote:
>Well I've shot the frames on Kodachrome, all I need to do now is wait a
>month until they're processed and sent back to me.
>
>Only kidding I used the Tri-Elmar on an M8. The intermediate positions
>didn't give sharp images.
>
>I seem to remember Puts describing the lens as a zoom, but as mentioned
>earlier perhaps the relevant element(s) only 'click' together at the
>standard focal lengths.
>
>Steve
>
>
>On 3/2/08 17:25, "Howard Ritter" <hlritter@bex.net> wrote:
>
>>  Nevertheless.
>>
>>  There must be someone on the list who owns an M8/TE and who has a more
>>  comprehensive or elastic curiosity space. Or whimsical :-).
>>
>>  How about shooting a few frames with the FL ring set in various
>>  intermediate positions, looking at some tight crops from center and
>>  edges, and telling us whether the lens seems to be a true zoom? Or
>>  from someone with the requisite technical familiarity: is it a zoom?
>

It's even easy to tell the TE can't be a zoom because the order of 
focal lengths is: 28-50-35. Can't have a zoom with that arrangement.

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