Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leicaflex's original glass
From: Colin <colinmi@fast.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 01:39:36 -0500

Patrick G. Sobalvarro wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Patrick,

I have a 180 2.8 Elmarit-R serial number 2247936. (1967)  It's the
earliest I've seen.  The plot thickens...

Colin