Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, live a little, learn a little. Thanks for today's lession. Guess I'll have to do some research. I wonder if the Nagel folder would have that glow? At 05:44 PM 1/19/97 -0500, you wrote: > >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! > > > Brian Levy, J.D. Agincourt Ont. dlevy@worldy.com