Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi all Recently there was a discussion on the use of UV-filters on Leica lenses. I do not now how this thread ended as I have not read my LUG posts carefully for some weeks. Anyhow, today I glanced hrough my Leica fotografie issues (in german) from 1953 and found an article written by Walter Benser. He states that three lenses had built in UV-filters at that time (Eingebautes UV-Schutzfilter) because their glass absorbs UV-light. These lenses are: Summitar, Summarit and Summarex. Lenses of Elmar-type does not have this quality according to Benser. This article was in the Mars 1953 issue, that is two issues before the Summicron 1:2/5 cm was thoroghly presented om two pages. regards Mikael