Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 01:15 AM 1999-01-28 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: >Can anyone straighten me out on how long ago they stopped making them, which >one to get, what they would cost (I'll go look through a shutterbug but >I don't recall seeing them) did they make one as long as an 80 (that's >what I'm used to for 35mm but I could learn to live with it I know they >made a medium format enlarger) and How they might compare to a Nikkor >which is what I'm used to. Well, Leitz made 9cm and 9.5cm lenses from 1927 until 1960, and the superb V-Elmar 4.5/100 from 1960 until 1977, and the 5.6/100 Focotar-2 from 1977 until 1983. Any of these lenses will make your Nikkor pale by comparison, to be polite. I'll restrain my remarks, but even the older Leica lenses are on par with the JSK and Rodenstock lenses and are quite a bit nicer than the Nikkor enlarging lenses. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!