Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc Are those like the one you had Steve Grimes do a partial restoration, for about a months salary? The 58mm ones were originally for the Contax "D" SLR, but remounted in LTM. I saw quite a few 50mm ones with aluminum Leica threads right after the war. f1.5 and f2.0 both. Never saw a Sonnarex or bronze-anodized one though. Jerry Marc James Small wrote: > There are an odd family of 1.5/5.8cm lenses in Leica thread-mount. These > are clearly of Postwar provenance and are almost certainly not true Zeiss > products, though their exact provenance remains more than a bit of a > mystery. Most are simply marked "Sonnar" though a few are marked > "Leica-Sonnar" and two are marked "Sonnarex", an otherwise unremarked moniker. > > Forty of these lenses are known to exist. I recently acquired my third, a > "Sonnarex" bearing serial number 1498512. Unlike my other two, which are > in shiny aluminium mounts, this one comes in a rather bronze-tinged > aluminium finish and with a completely flat front lens-ring. Its markings > are identical to my others (f/1.5 to f/11, DOF and distance markings in > meters, a small "m" for meters instead of the large "M" used on > Soviet/Post-Soviet lenses), though my earliest lens turns clockwise for > both distance and aperture while the later two turn withershins for both. > > I guess I'll have to try it on my IIIc: I think I have some film in it at > the moment. > > Marc > > msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html