Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/09/13

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To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: Re: numbers on Summicron focusing ring, again
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:51:23 -0400

At 03:24 PM 9/13/96 -0400,Brian Levy wrote:

>possibly only Contax of past years would have or could cared
>enough about technical excellence to have also done it on their
>rangefinder lenses (which they didn't).

The actual focal length of Contax RF 50mm lenses is 52.5mm, though minor
variations occured as they did and do with Leica.  Only the Russians have
been honest on this:  several runs of their Zeiss clone Jupiter-8 and -3
lenses have been marked as "53mm" and their books all so describe the lenses.

Marc


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