Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/08/14
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At 07:08 PM 8/14/96,Adrian wrote:
>I don't believe they made any of their own lenses for the camera. An
>assortment of European manufacturers produced lenses in the Alpa mount. The
>standard lens that came with the camera was the close-focusing Macro Switar
>50mm (I forget the manufacturer). It had an ingenious system of dots on the
>barrel that changed color as you rotated the aperture ring to show you the
>depth-of-field. Others lenses I had were by Old Delft and Angieneux.
>Schneider made some too I think, but I didn't own any of them. Lenses,
>filters, and accessories were almost impossible to find in regular camera
shops
>by the late 1970's, so one really had to hunt around. It was really a labour
>of love to own an Alpa.
I have an Alpa 11el with a Macor-Switar (mfd. by Kern, BTW); but I also have
a Leicaflex-to-Alpa adapter, which works great (in stop-down mode, of
course) & which may be my ticket to a villa on the Riviera. ;-)
I pull out my Alpa whenever I'm feeling particularly funky. Using it is
truly, as you say, a *labor* of love.
Chuck
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Chuck Warman
cwarman@wf.net (Wichita Falls, TX)
"The abdication of Belief / makes the Behavior small."
----Emily Dickinson