Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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