Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/20

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Subject: Re: [Leica] re: first intro to leica
From: Doug Herr <telyt@earthlink.net>
Date: 20 Aug 2001 11:28:26 -0700

On Mon, 20 August 2001, Daniel Bowdoin wrote:

> 
> By the way, I don't think there was such thing as a Leitz R lens over
> 180mm that was as fast as f2.8. The fastest R lens over 250mm was a
> 350f4.8 Or you could go with the 250f4 :-)
 
Not until the APO-Telyts.  There have been 280mm and 400mmm f/2.8 APO-Telyts, and with the current modular APO telyts one can put together the same focal lenghts and aperture.
 
> Or, if you had a strong
> assistant, you could go with the 800/6.3. I have a vague memory of a
> Leitz promotion for that lens where, if you bought a new one, they'd give
> you a new VW beatle as a premium. 
 
It was a VW Fox.
 

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com
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