Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/25

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Rokkor or Elmarit
From: Lucien <lucien@ubi.edu>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:28:40 +0100

Tord-Rikard Söderström wrote:

>I am planing to buy a 28mm for my newly invested chrome Leica M6
>I understand that there are two different classes, Rokkor´s and Elmarit´s
>what is the basic difference between these two, not just that the
>Rokkor is out of production and that it has a older construction


There are two problems with the 28 M-Rokkor.  

1- In almost all of them there is a problem with the black paint inside the lens
(lot of white spots) and sometimes a separation of the glasses.

2- With the M6, it's the 35mm frames which will appear in the viewfinder
instead of the 28mm frames.

Lucien