Re: [Leica] Red Scale Elmar Question

[MGMcGough@aol.com]

  I have seen a hybrid* (frosted bezel & f:22, but the normal d.o.f. 
configuration
  on #972,xxx and own own a diamond shaped red scale with s/n 1,033,xxx.
  I was told that several hundred hybrids* (or interim) were made & are worth
  half way beteen a standard Elmar & a true red scale (which has the rare
  earth glass (lanthanum) & or triangular* index mark. ---------   Mary Grace

In a message dated 7/17/00 6:13:37 Pacific Time, mlanger@ccs.carleton.ca 
writes:
> 
>  Does anyone know at what serial no. did the production of the red scale
>  elmar begin?  I've been told at 1,000,000, but I have come across a
>  bizarre hybrid numbered just above that.  It has the same chrome finish as
>  the red scale, but the body ring (with measurement of distance, not
>  D.O.F.) as the previous coated Elmar model.  Were there transition models
>  early in production?
>  
>  Mark
>