Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:43 PM 11/30/97 -0500, Nick Hunter wrote: >Could one of the LUG's historians satisfy my curiosity? > >Both Laney in "Collector's Guide" and Rogliatti in "Leica & Leicaflex >Lenses" call the 21/3.4 one of the six lenses debuted with the Leicaflex >Standard. I know about the 35/2.8, 50/2.0, 90/2.8 and 135/2.8. What's the >other one? > >Did Leitz count the 14127 as a "lens"? if so why would it count as only one? When Nick first asked this question of the list, I looked in my copy of Rogliatti (the older one, "First 60 Years") and saw at the bottom of page 191 that he claimed that the 180/2.8 Elmarit-R was one of the six original lenses, and I said so in a message to the list. Nick responded that he had believed the 180 was introduced in 1968 with the SL. Everything I could find indicates that he is right, and Rogliatti is wrong (and so was I in quoting him). In particular, I have a copy of Catalog No. 40, Leica and Leicaflex, effective June 1, 1967, which does not list the 180/2.8, but lists the other five lenses. - -Patrick