Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Strange filter...
From: Ken Wilcox <wilcox@tir.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:19:08 -0400

Sounds like a Y2 for the 35 or 50 Elmar LTM lens.

kw

>I was sorting through some old piles of junk yesterday
>and came across an odd Leitz filter.  It's a yellow screw
>in filter with a screw diameter of around 3/4 of an inch.
>It's marked Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, Germany  2* on the
>filter itself, and it comes in a tiny red box labelled
>Gelbfilter 2, "Firmy" 3.5 - 5 cm.  I assume this means
>it's for 35 and 50mm lenses but it's so small it won't
>fit any of the current range.  Is "Firmy" the code name
>for it, and if so does anyone know what this was for?
>
>Thanks,
>Simon.


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