Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:05 AM 12/20/97 -0800, Dale R Reed wrote: >In the Leica catalog x/96/DY/B there is a 90 mm ELMARIT-M f/2.8 lens <snip> >I am sure I will be taking photographs of many things I can not even >imagine now. And this lens rings a bell for my Retinas had 35mm f/2.0 >lens but: > Two points: I believe the lens recommended was the no-longer-in-production 2.8/90 Tele-Elmarit, the so-called 'thin' or 'skinny' Tele-Elmarit. The current 2.8/90 Elmarit is a significantly larger lens. And no 2/35 lens was ever made for the Retina. The closest was the 2.8/35 Retina-Curtagon made for the IIIS and Reflex; more common are the 4/35 Retina-Heligon and Retina-Curtar-Xenon for the IIc, IIIc, and IIIC. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!