Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/05/31

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Subject: Re: V-Elmar
From: henningw@archiphoto.com (Henning J. Wulff)
Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 12:39:00 -0800

Joe Berenbaum asked:

>>In Vancouver here my local lab makes excellent transparencies from negs,
>>and he generally has some of the tightest tolerances I have seen. His E-6
>>generally runs no worse than 25% of Kodak's allowed tolerances (and he
>>uses>a V-Elmar for the smaller sizes; he says it works better than all
>>purpose-designed lenses he tried).
>
>I've got to ask this- is this a Visoflex Elmar, and if so, which one?

No. The V-Elmar is the 100/4.5 enlarging lens used with the Focomat IIc
enlarger. This enlarger usually came with a 60 and a 100mm lens.


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