Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Where do elmar, summ etc come from
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:18:22 -0400

At 11:24 PM 6/14/99 +1000, Horst Schmidt wrote:
>The following LTM/M Telyt lenses are definitely telephoto lenses:
>The 200mm f4.5,  200mm f4, 280mm f4.8 and the 400mm f5 old and new versions.
>

Horst, you drove me back to the reference library, and you are absolutely
correct.  These lenses ARE telephotos, though mild ones:  that is, there is
optical compression used in their design.

Thanks for setting me straight!

Marc

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