Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/03/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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