Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/22

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Early 90 Elmarit-R question
From: Javier Perez <japho@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:26:12 -0400

Thank Doug
That's a new one on me
I remember seeing that kind of spec scratched
somewhere on the optical pack casing but not
engraved on the outside!
Javier


Doug Herr wrote:

> Javier wrote:
>
> >>>
> I have an old  Elmarit 90 2110XXX. It has a red feet scale
> and a white meters scale. Right under the feet marking is a white M
> for meters and about 1mm to the right of that m are 2 tiny sideways zeros
> in white. Does anybody know what they are there for?
> <<<
>
> The "00" is the lens' deviation from the marked focal length, so your 90mm
> Elmarit-R is truly a 90mm lens.  I don't know how it compares with the last
> version but I was quite pleased with the performance of the one I borrowed
> many years ago.
>
> Doug Herr
> Sacramento
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt