Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I have just had forwarded from my German publisher a Fax from an anonymous >Japanese source listing the following Japanese lenses in Leica mount. (The >author indicates these are all Leica thread-mount, though I had thought >some, if not all, were in M mount): > >3.5/28 Avenon (marketed in the US already by Adorama) >2.8/21 Avenon (marketed in the US already by Adorama) >2/35 Hexanon (1000 marketed in 1996) >2.4/50 collapsible Hexanon (marketed in April, 1997) >2.8/28 Ricoh GR 1 (will be marketed in May, 1997, 2000 in chrome, 1000 in >black) > >There is no mention of the Asanumi 21mm and 28mm lenses as announced at >Photokina 1994. Perhaps these are the Avenon lenses listed above. > >This information confirms what has already been posted here recently on >this subject. > >Marc Marc, Thanks for taking the time to confirm what I found. Best, Danny Gonzalez