Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] black and white slides
From: "Jonathan Borden" <jborden@mediaone.net>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 17:09:09 -0500

Greg Locke wrote:
>
> 50 to 60mm lens is ideal.
>
> I will risk the blasphemy of saying I use a Nikkor 55mm 2.8 Micro on a
Nikon F.
> Maybe someone can recommend a Leica lens for copy work  :^)
>

    The 65 mm Elmar/Viso is the classic Leica copy lens. I have found that
the 50mm Summicron has a nice flat field and is ideal for occasional copy
work. Another option is an enlarging lens with a 39mm mount (also mounts on
the Bellows II/Viso with an adapter).

Jonathan Borden