Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I caught your reply in re the microscope objective. Can these be had fairly commonly? I have searched the web, but have found mostly people selling new stuff. My old 'scope has the Whitworth screw, so it can take more modern lenses... I'd like to use some more recent glass for my piddling around photo taking and save the old stuff! If you can advise on someone who sells something this strange, please, let me know! Dan ;) - -----Original Message----- From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Monday, 24 November, 1997 3:34 PM Subject: Re: Objective info request >At 01:06 PM 11/24/97 -0500, AL BANONES wrote: >>Can someone fill me in on a Leitz Wetzlar microscope objective? >> >>It is a MILAR f=40mm 1:4.5. I would like to know when it was >> >>produced and the value > > >It could have been produced at any point from around 1905 until 1972 or so, >when the Milar series were replaced by the current Photar lineup. If it is >uncoated, it is Prewar, if coated, Postwar. > >Value? probably $100 to $300. These guys don't have the value of the >Photar or Zeiss Luminar lenses, though the Milar lenses are quite good, and >are fitted with the 'Royal Screw' so they will fit the adapters for the >Photar and Luminar lenses. > >Marc > > >msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! >