Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] ELCAN for military observations
From: Ken Iisaka <kiisaka@ms.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 07:47:28 +0900
 
Pascal wrote:
> 
> Hello to all:
> 
> today I was on a professional duty tour at an airforce base. Besides
> current fighter airplanes, there were also a couple of formerly used
> aircraft types on display.
> I noticed than one of these decommissioned airplanes, a subtype of the
> Mirage V, had a special outfit for military observations (dating from the
> end of the sixties up to the end of the seventies) consisting of, amongst
> others, a whole battery of high performance observation lenses for air
> reconnaissance at low altitude. These turned out to be ELCAN (Made in
> Canada). Is that not a lens made by Leica?
> 

Yep.  ELCAN = Ernst Leitz CANada