Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:48 PM 2/27/98 -0800, Richard Lahrson wrote: >About the R15 being a Zeiss design, further comments? Doesn't Zeiss >make a 15mm for the Contax/Yashica? Also the 16mm for the rangefinder, >not much different than the 15mm. Nikon made a 13mm/5.6 way back when... >Cannon's current 14mm/2.8L...Zeiss Hologon 15mm/8 camera AND same >in Leica bay. mount Zeiss made the 8/15 Hologon in a special variant of the Contarex and marketed this as the Hologon Camera. Some small number of the lenses for these cameras were sold to Leitz, who marketed them for the Leica M cameras. The current 16mm Hologon is a similar, but not identical, lens. The 3.5/15 Super-Elmar-R IS a 3.5/15 Distagon in Leica R drag. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!