Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/05

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Subject: Re: Old Leicas
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 02:04:58 -0400

At 12:48 PM 8/5/97 -0700, Roger Beamon wrote:
>Ck the Summilux again. I show it to have been built from 1959 to 1968, 
>with a later design appearing in 1966 which is still in production.

The actual change was at 1844001 in 1962 though not admitted by Leica until
1966.  The optical formula has remained the same from 1844001 to the present.

Marc


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