Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/04/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:55 AM 4/2/96 +0100, "joe b." wrote: >And for that matter, are there any other non-Leica lenses that are >particularly special that anyone can think of (for Leica cameras that >is)? My records indicate that Angenieux made the 3.5/35 X1, the 2.9/50 Z5, a 1.8/50, the 2.5/90 Y1, and the 3.5/135 Y2 in LTM; there may have been others. There are hundreds of fine and not-so-fine lenses made over the years for LTM from scads of manufacturers: Hans Rajner's count, at my last communication with him, was 350 lenses and I believe he lists a bunch more than this in that most helpful appendix to his _Leica Copies_. The big players in LTM lenses, of course, were Nikon and Canon, for the American market, but worldwide the Russians and Ukrainians swamp even the large output of these Japanese lenses. Hundreds of thousands of Zorki and FED lenses have been produced since the 1930's, and production continues today in both countries, a tremendous monument to the basic genius of Oscar Barnack and his original design. LTM lenses have been in continuous production on three continents, at least, and in at least nine countries for more than six decades, a record which, I suspect, will stand for a long, long time. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!