Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I just picked up two rather interesting LTM pieces. First is a 1.5/85 Enna-Werke Lithagon, a fat, fat optick which blocks about half of both the RF and VF screens on my IIIc (I've not yet tried it on my M6). Most interesting -- I'd never heard of this specification of Lithagon before. And most Lithagons were in Zenit TM (39mm times 6 tpi, but in a 45.5mm back-focus and not Leica's 28.8mm); this one has a nice and well-built RF cam and is the genuine LTM article. The second item is even more interesting, an 18cm f/4.5 Goerz Dogmar with a reflex housing which appears to be a factory job. The lens mount is brass, black laquered in part and the rest heavy, heavy chrome. The reflex housing has a vertical magnifier and looks a bit like the early PLOOT, though larger. Ah, well, the infinite history of after-market LTM lenses progresses. Leica engendered a market for aftermarket lenses beginning with the Meyer offerings of 1931 and extending to the Jupiter lenses still made today, a span of 65 years. No one else comes close! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! Replied: 21 Feb 96 20:02