Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/22
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If you refer to Erwin Puts, don't call him Herr Puts as Herr is German and
Erwin Puts Dutch. The Dutch equivalent of Herr is Mijnheer, i.e. Mijnheer Puts.
Not a very important issue I guess.
Gerard Captijn,
Geneva, Switzerland.
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>At 10:34 AM 10/22/96 -0400, Charles E. Love, Jr. wrote:
>
>>Yes--I once owned both a very late Hector and its successor, the 135 f4
>>Elmar, which was reputed to be much better (and is much more expensive
>>today). They looked very much alike--and I could see no difference in their
>>performance either. I wonder how they stack up with the current 135 f4
>>tele-Elmar (which has been around since 1965). I also wonder if that lens
>>is still competitive with other 135's (though that focal length is not
>>popular any more, what with the rise of zooms, so there probably aren't any
>>relatively new designs out there). Mr. Puts, are you listening?--Charlie
>
>
>I, too, would be quite curious as to Herr Puts' assessment of these lenses.
>
>Both the 4.5/135 Hektor and its successor, the 4/135 Elmar, are long
>physically, as both are 'long-focus' lenses and not true telephotos, while
>the 4/135 Tele-Elmar IS a true telephoto -- that is, it's length is less
>than the focal length, as is also the case for the 4/135 Jupiter-11, for
>instance. I don't believe the 4/135 Elmar in M mount is currently that
>expensive: a good user can be had for under $350, while the Tele-Elmars
>tend to run almost twice that. (For that matter, I have one for sale myself
>and haven't had many nibbles.) This IS now an unhappy focal length, as so
>many folks have been told for so long that it is pushing an RF to use that
>long a lens, that now they believe it. I use the 4/135 Tele-Elmar and
>2.8/135 Elmarit regularly, and find them both delightful lenses in all regards.
>
>Leica has stated that the current 4/135 has had a slight optical redesign
>from the older 1965 design. My source for this is Eric Welch, and I hope he
>is still on board and can quote the statement he posted a year or so back.
>
>Marc
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315
>Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
>
>
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