Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are two photographs of the 90mm f/1.0 Elcan, as built for the US Navy, in Jim Lager's book "Leica - An Illustrated History Volume II" on pages 231 and 232. This is a massive lens weighing about 4.5 lbs. I didn't find any reference to how many were made. There was a 90mm f/1.0 Leitz Canada lens sold at the Tamarkin Photographica auction earlier this month. This lens was a fixed-focus design made for the Picker X-Ray company. It is supposed to be similar in optical design to the US Navy lens, though physically it looks quite different. It sold for $4500.