Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]ted grant wrote: > > To all you technical folks: Please & thankyou. > > I've just read about this lens but I'm confused as to whether it's a > f 0.85 75 mm lens for normal use or whether it's the infrared lens that was > developed during the war. > > Or are these 2 different lenses? And is there really an f 0.85 75 sitting > out there some place in the cold cruel world waiting to be found and > purchased, if I look hard enough? One more. Is it worth looking for and > roughly what kind of money would one be paying? wild guess? > > Final question. Is it any good? (God, what a terrible question of a Leica > lens!) That is not a major interest, I'd like to have it to work with if > if I can find one. > > thanks in advance, > > ted grant > Victoria, Canada. Ted, I have a book called The Leica and the Leica System by Theo M. Scheerer that has a few paragraphs and a picture of a 75mm .85 Summar. I can't see the serial number but the author says Leitz made it in 1934. Two examples of it's use are for X-Ray screen photography and Projection at the 1936 Olympics. I would assume only a few examples of it ever existed. I would also assume that the lens would have a very distinct 'personality' were you to encounter one. Regards, Colin