Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:08 AM 1999-01-16 -0800, Mark Langer wrote: >After lurking on this group for a month or so, I'm breaking my silence >with a question. I'm interested in LTM cameras, and have just been >offered a Rodenstock Heligon 35mm f2.8 lens. I'm unfamiliar with this >lens and wonder if anyone has used one. If so, opinions? This lens is, of course, mentioned in that standard reference work, NON-LEITZ LEICA THREAD-MOUNT LENSES (Wittig, 1997), by <ah-HEM!> Marc James Small. This is a relatively rare lens and possibly has more value to a collector than to a user. It is a capable lens optically, though, and should be a nice lens to shoot with. Given that a 2.8/35 Jupiter-12 can be had for $125 or so, and is as good a lens or better as a user, the Heligons generally end up on collector's shelves. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!