Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Leikon35@aol.com wrote: > > At Mon, 2 Feb 1998 18:20 -0500, Ted Grant wrote: >snip< > > It's almost heresy to use flash with the thing! I know some > > folks do, but to change the shutter to "battery driven" for a handful of > > flash enthusiasts is ridiculous. > ======================================================= > Just as a note of trivia - Leitz did cater to the flash enthusiast at one > time > by making the Elmar lens in a Compur or Compound shutter with speeds > up to 1/300sec. From 1926 to 1941 - a total of 1,710 were made and are > worth around $10,000 each today. > There a photo of my Leitz Elmar #111,865 in a Compur Shutter on Jun > Nakajima's Leica Web site: > http://www.magicalights.co.jp/cgi-bin/leicaboardE.cgi?read=29 > > Marvin Moss Marvin, I thought the Model B was made as a less expensive alternative since it didn't have the focal plane shutter. I'm not sure how much flash photography was done in its day. Now the compur shutter Summicron, that's another story. Dennis - -- Experience is a tough teacher. It gives the test before the lesson. - -unknown