Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Opinions needed 400 f5 lens
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 16:04:10 -0400

At 03:38 PM 7/24/99 -0700, Randolph Carlisle, occasional insulter of this
"Yankee Colonel", wrote:
>The thread is about a 400 f/5 Telyt.  Mine is a 400 f/5.6 Telyt.  Is
>mine the same lens?  If so mine is a very sharp lens, even with some
>separation.

The saga is interesting, Randy --

5/400 first version	1936 - 55	  679 made
5/400 second version	1955 - 66	3360 made 
5.6/400 		1966 - 71	      ? made
6.8/400 		1968 - 84	      ? made

These are, of course, all M lenses.

Marc

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