Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 75/2 Astro Berlin???
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 17:52:04 -0500

At 08:46 PM 2/26/98 +0100, Fred Hess wrote:
>In the Swiss book: "LEICA-Fotoschule", page 29, is a picture of a
>"Wehrmachts"-soldier using an Astro 1:4/800mm lens and a LTM-camera
>shooting pictures over the Channel from the french coast of english
>radar-intallations!! 1941!!!  

Noted Leica authority and author Theo Kisselbach was in charge of this
project and wrote a brief piece about it in VIEWFINDER some years back.

And Randy Hooper wrote a nice article on Astro reflex housings and lenses
for VIEWFINDER three or four years back.

Marc


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