Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] New 75mm lens for Leica
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 09:39:47 -0400

At 09:55 PM 6/9/99 +1000, Horst Schmidt wrote:
>
>I own a Dallmeyer Super six 50mm f1.9 lens in Leica mount. The one I have
is not yet
>coated, and it looks like it is pre-war.

The 1.9/50 Dallmeyer Super-Six was produced both Pre- and Post-War.
Wright, Glanfield, and Matanle suggest that the 2/85 is both a Sonnar and a
Biotar, an impossible combination -- I believe it is a Biotar-based design.

Marc

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