Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jorg Willems wrote: > > I am very pleased with my Tele-Elmarit and I have no idea whether I have the > first or second (it's my first ... ;-) > Ser. # is 33172xx. Which is it? > > Jörg > >snip > At 01:45 PM 1999-03-01 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >I'm willing to bet the lovers had the five element and the haters like > >myself had the four element. > > No, sir. A bunch of us have owned and loved the skinny Tele-Elmarit, and > most of us have been quite careful to identify the version to which we are > referring. I have owned and used ever 2.8/90 version and find the current > Elmarit optically stunning. The skinny Tele-Elmarit, though, was a winner > of a lens, light and fast and easy in use, with sound optical performance. > snip > Marc > Which illustrates the point that we are all not going to be identifying the versions of our lenses if we don't know what the heck a version is. How particularly uninformed is Jorg compared to the most of us? Previously with this lens some of us thought the later version used the 39 thread and the earlier version a bigger one. I seems they both used the same front thread. How many of us have the type of documentation that helps us out through the pleasant maze of Leica History. Or in my case can find those books when we want them? Mark Rabiner