Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/01

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Subject: Re: 21 Super Angulon
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@spherenet.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 17:39:00 -0400

At 04:02 PM 12/1/96 -0500, Ken wrote:
>I have an M mount f3.4 21mm Super Angulon. It is a wonderful lens-compact
>and very sharp. It is as least as good as the retrofocus Elmarit if not
>better. It is not Japanese. (I've heard that said before)
>
>An interesting result you get with this lens is that the negatives are
>LARGER than the standard 24x36mm. They almost touch each other on the
>processed film. This is because the rear element is so close to the film
>plane that the image is projected onto the film at such a steep angle that
>it spreads out behind the opening in the film plane. The first time I saw
>this I thought my camera had film advance problems.

[snip]

wasn't the lens built by Schneider (hence the name)?

Dan C.