Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/04

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Buying R8,need advice on lenses conclusion
From: Alan Ball <AlanBall@csi.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 07:19:26 +0100
 
Mark Rabiner wrote:

> I'd hate to go up against Leica in the 180 department. This is the focal
> length if I remember right commissioned in its first higher speed form
> for the famous '32 Olympics for Leni R. So its a perhaps established
> lineage. 

Mark,

AFAIK it was the Zeiss Olympia which started the 180mm f2.8 lineage at
the Berlin games, and that was later than '32 ('36 ?, not sure here).

Alan