Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:57 PM 1/19/97 -0500, Brian Levy wrote: >What would the purpose of the larger coverage area be for a 4.5 lens? >LEitz,Leica didn't work with MF or LF that I am aware of. Was it just for >the smaller aperature capability? Well, Leitz lenses were used on occasion on MF cameras in the '30's -- there are Nagel folders which came with Leitz lenses, Summars and Milars, I recall. They may have been used on LF as well -- a 4.5/200 was a pretty sexy object at the time, given the slew of f/6.3 and f/11 lenses which then populated the camera stores. I don't know the reason -- I just know it is a bit of old Leica lore. Whether it is uniformly true, I cannot say -- though I do know some Hassie 1000F photographers who regularly use the 4.5/200 Telyt on their cameras and claim they get full coverage. But I never did this back in my Kiev 88 days, though I did have the adapter and the lens at that point. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!