Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/01

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Subject: RE: [Leica] LTM Zeiss TeleTessar 1:6.3 f 18cm
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 11:35:39 -0400

At 07:45 AM 8/1/1999 -0700, Frank Filippone wrote:
>Gary....... The 180 F6.3 Tele Tessar was a reasonably common Contax RF lens
>( aas early as 1932 or so) and I have never seen it elsewhere..... Whether
>the lens you found was born Contax and later adapted, or if the lens is a
>factory run I have no way to know.

The 6.3/18cm Tessar, though, was a common LF lens available in the four
standard mounts (standard, sunken, focusing, or with shutter).  It did have
an A42/S40.5 filter mount.  The serial number would indicate a production
date of '27 or '28, so I would suspect this to be a converted LF lens.  The
LF lens cost between $US 46 and $US 54 in 1939.

Marc


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