Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] weird lens
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:17:19 -0500

At 07:23 PM 1999-01-26 EST, Tom Abrahamson wrote:
>Isaac, the 2" f2 lens comes from a Vinten aerial camera. It is a British made
>aerial camera and the lens is designed to cover 120/70 mm film. The backfocus
>of the lens is very close to the filmplane and it cant be modified for use on
>a M or-Flex, which is too bad as it is a very good lens. 

So what IS the backfocus?  In mm?  I understand it would take massive
reconstruction to fit this lens to a regular Leica camera, but, if you've
got the speicifics at hand, I'd love to have them.

Marc

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