Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:59 AM 2/25/97 EST, Lucien wrote: >Leitz have made 400 ex. of that lenses (all the lenses that you can see in the >different publications are falling inside 400 numbers). >I have read somewhere that those lenses have been made in Romania ?? to cut the >price (engraving "Made in Germany). Legend ?? >Anyway the quality of the construction was different from the other Leica >lenses. The focusing range was printed on a metal strip who was fixed on the >ring. Van Hasbroeck confirms this, almost word for word, on pp 211-212 of his magnum opus and says the lenses were intended for the French market, though never actually marketed. Lager is much briefer at II:242; he seems to doubt that 400 were actually built. However, Van Hasbroeck illustrates 2512965 while Lager illustrates 2512605, so it seems safe to postulate that at least 360 were built. Van Hasbroeck opines that the mount was not up to Leica standards. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!