Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/20

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Subject: Re: Coverage of Leitz Lenses
From: Brian Levy <dlevy@worldy.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1997 20:49:58 -0500

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