Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.