Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/27

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Subject: Re: [Leica] R15
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 18:37:21 -0500

At 12:48 PM 2/27/98 -0800, Richard Lahrson wrote:
>About the R15 being a Zeiss design, further comments? Doesn't Zeiss
>make a 15mm for the Contax/Yashica? Also the 16mm for the rangefinder,
>not much different than the 15mm. Nikon made a 13mm/5.6 way back when...
>Cannon's current 14mm/2.8L...Zeiss Hologon 15mm/8 camera AND same
>in Leica bay. mount

Zeiss made the 8/15 Hologon in a special variant of the Contarex and
marketed this as the Hologon Camera.  Some small number of the lenses for
these cameras were sold to Leitz, who marketed them for the Leica M
cameras.  The current 16mm Hologon is a similar, but not identical, lens.

The 3.5/15 Super-Elmar-R IS a 3.5/15 Distagon in Leica R drag.

Marc


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