Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Alpa question
From: Joseph Yao <joseph@yao.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2003 06:47:13 +0800

The Kern Macro Switar 50/1.9 is a very fine lens.  It has very high
resolution (though contrast not as high as modern lenses) and I use one
regularly with my M6.

Joseph


on 20/7/03 6:22 am, animal at s.jessurun95@chello.nl wrote:

> This question :
>> Does anyone remember the 35mm-SLR ALPA?
> 
> from Jean-Michel Tomaschett made me realize that i had an Alpa lens
> somewhere which was my fathers.
> Eventually i found it it in a box in the furthest corner of my basement
> where i have stored the radioactive lenses recently after advice from
> Michael Briggs,
> http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelbriggs/aeroektar/aeroektar.html
> Anyhow the lens is rather unusual in that the focusing scale is very long ,a
> few turns and it also states the magnification factor.
> It is marked Kern macro switar 1:1,9/50 AR made for alpa.
> Does anyone have experience wih this lens?
> Thanks
> simon jessurun
> amsterdam
> 
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