Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Gary Todoroff wrote: >The presence of the red mark is the first question from a >well-informed collector, since apparently Leica themselves >adapted many thread-mount SOOZI's to be a bayonet mount lens, >adding their own red dot. Mine has no bayonet index mark at all. Congratulation. >Did Leica ever sell the first 90mm Summicron as a bayonet >lens without adding the index mark? >Since mine has the 147 serial number batch, it appears to be >among the first few ever made. It's possible, I read somewhere that a few Summarex 85/1,5 were sold with a bayonet adapter glued on them without red index. Lucien