Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/04

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Subject: [Leica] New to Leica - Leitz 4/90
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:56:16 -0800
References: <99bc852e0903031922y68afd18cuf04dc588c8eaf1e0@mail.gmail.com> <20090304035429.D7DF518A770@barracuda.rutabaga.org> <49AEDD90.2020401@sbcglobal.net> <20090305034732.0B62118CFBC@barracuda.rutabaga.org>

Would that make it, for those late ones, a special run.
It doesn't seem that they would of been part of the general run.
sd


On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Marc James Small wrote:

> At 02:59 PM 3/4/2009, Bill Larsen wrote:
> >Marc James Small wrote:
> >
> >> /Snip/
> >> --  there never has been a 4/90 Leitz Elmar.  That lens was a 4/9cm
> >> Leitz Elmar.  This is one of my favorite lenses.  I have late  
> edition
> >> on my Bellows II as a micro lens, and a collapsible one for my M's.
> >> It is a wonderful lens.
> >> /Snip
> >
> >Are you talking about pre-war lenses?   I know my post-war 4/90 is
> >labeled as a Leitz lens.  Inquiring minds would like to know.
>
> I have corresponded with Bill about this off-List.  He is  
> absolutely correct and I was wrong.  The final four-element f/4  
> Elmars were marked as 90mm as were, I believe, all of the three- 
> element lenses.  But MOST of the f/4 Elmar line were 9cm.  The  
> changeover was not made at one rigid point, but occurred between  
> roughly 1961 and 1967.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall at aya.yale.edu
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>
>
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Replies: Reply from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] New to Leica - Leitz 4/90)
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Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] New to Leica)
Message from von-ohlen at sbcglobal.net (Bill Larsen) ([Leica] New to Leica - Leitz 4/90)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] New to Leica - Leitz 4/90)