Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/17

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Subject: Re: Zeiss on my Leica
From: Edward Meyers <aghalide@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 20:24:35 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997 ABreull@aol.com wrote:

> In einer eMail vom 16.09.1997  23:55:05, schreiben Sie:
> 
> >"Delicate"?  Howso?
> 
> The Will McBride/ Flektogon story is published in the McBride/ Fusco book
> (also ?), and he gave that comment, when he was taking pix on Herman Hesse's
> Sidharta novel in India, while he was working for the German mag  "twen"
> (before and in the beginning of his NY studio area, when his wife had left
> him). He said, that the small inner lenses break easily, and that he had an
> additonal second Flektogon with him most of the time. Later he changed to the
> Super Angulon - because the Flektogons became too unreliable.
> 
> Alf
> 
But the Flectagon is much less expensive than the Super A. Ed