Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/06

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Subject: Re: [Leica] no. of blades
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 10:30:14 -0500

At 04:55 PM 12/6/97 +0800, Leslie Tseng wrote:
>(1) Which Leica M/LTM lens has the largest number of blades 
>    (to form the diaphragm)?
>(2) Which RF/VF lens has more blades than Leica lenses?

There was a version of the 2/50 Summitar with 12 or 15 blades.  This
PROBABLY takes the cake.  I do not know of any other production camera lens
with more.

Marc


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