Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:08 PM 5/26/99 +1000, Horst Schmidt queried: > >1. Has anybody on the LUG ever used a 50mm Hector lens. I personally know no >anyone who used it. But according to the reports I read, it was not one of >Leitzes master pieces.If some of you used this lens, please let me know what you >think about it.. > I owned one about five or six years back when I bought a Leica kit from the estate of a retired Indian Army officer. Truly, a mediocre lens by today's standards, but, then, for the early 1930's, it was a fine performer. It was effectively killed by the Zeiss 2/5cm Sonnar, the advent of which forced Leitz to develop the 2/5cm Summar. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!