Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/04

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Subject: Re: 21mms & Filter Sizes
From: PhotoZone Gallery <fotozone@efn.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 12:16:58 -0800

At 08:05 AM 3/4/97 -0800, you wrote:
>> Henning J. Wulff wrote:
>>
>> and is a lot more compact, especially when on a camera. Also, using filters
>> with the Elmarit is a problem for me, as you have to use 60mm filters with
>> the current model, and the only other lens I have that uses this size is
>> the Noctilux, with which I don't use filters. The series 7 filters for the
>> SA are much cheaper and more readily available and generally useable. The
>
>I have a vintage late 60's or early '70s M-lenses brochure which 
>lists the 21 SA at 48mm. Apparently it changed to Series VII
>a bit later. This was why I originally posted the question on
>filter sizes (and lens variations for that matter). I am wanting
>to get back into Leica M after a too-long absence, and knowing
>what is available would help. A new brochure will certainly tell
>me what is available now, but most of what I am interested in
>will be used (the 21 SA for instance, which I now know to have
>at least two different filter sizes). Seems to me there are enough
>knowledgable folks in this LUG that somebody has a chart somewhere
>showing various lenses and filter sizes over the years. 
>
>Again, my TIA.
>
>Paul.
>
>
The Leica price list from 1965 shows a filter size of either Series VII or
E48 for the Super-Angulon 21mm f 3.4

Herman Krieger