Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/15

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Subject: Re: 50mm focal length
From: David Young <youngs@IslandNet.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 96 09:15 PDT
 
At 07:16 PM 15/10/96, you wrote:

>Incidentally, of the current production M-lenses, have you noticed 
>how the longer-larger aperture lenses remain Canadian-made?
>i.e. as far as I can tell, the following lenses continue to be made 
>under contract in Midland by Hughes Elcan:
>
> 50mm 1.0 Noctilux-M
> 75mm 1.4 Summilux-M
> 90mm 2.0 Summicron-M
> 135mm 2.8 Elmarit-M
>
>Adrian Tanovic
>Tokyo

Does anybody know if any of the R lenses are still made in Midland?  

I have the 90mm 2.0 Sumicron-R, which I use as a "standard" lens - don't own
a 50 at all.   :-(

David Young.