Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Mon, 04 May 1998, Marc Small wrote: > Were your Novoflex lenses thread-mount or bayonet-mount? The thread-mount > lenses ARE rather elderly, being Steinheil lenses, and they went west i= n > '58 or so. But the bayonet-mount lenses are more modern designs by Dr > Staeble, and I haven't a problem with THEIR quality! Marc, If I recall correctly, they were bayonet-mount lenses. I think most of m= y disappointment with the Novoflex lenses resulted from comparing the Novoflex chromes with the 6.8 Telyt chromes. In such a comparison nearly anything= will fall short of the Telyt's abilities. Regardless of the optical quality, in the year I had the Novoflex I made an unusual number of marketable images which would have been = impossible with any other equipment aside from the Telyt. - -Doug