Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/04

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Vario Elmar 80/200 f4 Vs leicaflex SL
From: Marco Grande <hektor73@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 09:15:06 -0800 (PST)

Must be a new lens. Maybe the ROM problem?!?

- ---"Fantoni, Ernesto" <Fantoni@PHIBRED.COM> wrote:
>
> Marco,
> 
> look at the Leica catalog. Vario Elmar 80-200 f4!
> 
> > ----------
> > From: 	Marco Grande[SMTP:hektor73@yahoo.com]
> > Sent: 	Wednesday, 04 March, 1998 8:09 AM
> > To: 	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> > Subject: 	Re: [Leica] Vario Elmar 80/200 f4  Vs leicaflex SL
> > 
> > 
> > Guido,
> > 80/200 f4? I did not know such a lens exists.
> > The original 1974 Vario-Elmar-R 80-200 f4.5 was one if the three
early
> > R lenses (the other two being the 24/2.8 and 16/2.8 fisheye)
> > incompatible with the Leicaflex and SL. The mirror assembly is
> > slightly different in the SL2 et seq.
> > 
> > Is this the lens to which you refer?
> > The later 75-200/4.5 and 70-210/4 lenses should woork on an SL.
> > 
> > MG 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 

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