Re: [Leica] Telyt 400/5.6

[Photo Phreak <leicam4pro@yahoo.com>]

- --- SthRosner@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/3/02 3:51:23 PM Eastern Standard
> Time, 
> leicam4pro@yahoo.com writes:
> 
> >     My memory tells me that you are refering to the two
> >  F/6.8 s.
> >  
> >      As I remember a famous photographer was given one
> 
> I think you are correct on all counts, PP. I may have
> inadvertently started 
> this thread by referring to an older Leitz telephoto
> lens, the 400mm f/5 
> Telyt for Visoflex. The question then posed was whether
> this lens could be 
> used on the trombone focussing tube of the 400/6,8 (it
> cannot). Somehow, that 
> elided into this. 
> 
> I believe it was David Douglas Duncan who used the
> 400/6,8 prototype at the 
> U.S. national conventions in 1968. It is an excellent
> lens - our buddy 
> Birdman Doug is alleged to have used it - so long as one
> bears in mind the 
> field curvature.
> 
> Seth      LaK 9
> --
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    I didn't want to be a name dropper....  {8o)

    I seem to remember a book being published as well, with
the lens being one of the stars.  And I am sure the whole
thing was played up to the max in both Modern and Pop.  It
was a great promotion for the lens...

    But out of respect to the "bokeh" crowd, it is the
curvature of field that makes the central image "pop out"
in the picture.
    I have always hoped I could find one of the Viso
versions at an affordable ( for me ) price.  But I have
never been so lucky.

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