[Leica] Is the 28/35/50 Tri Elmar a retrofocus design?

[Mark Rabiner]

Probably no symmetrical, non retrofocus glass made by Leica since the M6 in 1984 had a meter in the camera working through the lens making for a sensor path which was in the way of the classic  Schneider 21mm f3.4 Super-Angulon lens for years the wide angle to beat and it didn’t seem likely it was going to be beat by a retrofocus design which were always looked upon as garbage until a very few years ago when they got a new PR agent named Bernie. Classic Symmetrical wide angle glass protruces way into the camera and often hardly pokes out the front much at all. They are often very tiny in total size a small fraction of the modern retrofocus being used on cameras now which look like 90mm lenses some of them.
 	

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 2/17/20, 10:18 AM, "LUG on behalf of Don Dory via LUG" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

    I have the second version 28/50/35 and it retro focus.  It does just fine
    on a A7R xx.
    
    On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:14 PM Frank Filippone via LUG <
    lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
    
    > Does anyone know the answer to this question?  I have been unable to find
    > the answer myself....
    > If no one knows, I will ask Leica....
    > Thank you
    >
    > Note that the 16/18/21 Wide Angle Tri Elmar is a retrofocus design, but I
    > already know that....
    >
    > Frank Filippone
    > BMWRed735i at gmail.com
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