Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Tele-Elmarit first and second
From: Christer Almqvist <chris@almqvist.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 11:32:45 +0000

>snip
 Tele-Elmarit 90
>five and four elements respectively.
>We've been going off and on, hot and cold, love and hate on this lens
>for the 3 or 4 months I have been here. Both had a filter size of 39 but
>the thin second lens as 220g and the first made till '74 was 325g. I'm
>willing to bet the lovers had the five element and the haters like
>myself had the four element.

It seems to me that the satisfied users (like me) have the **made in
Canada** Tele-Elmarit f/2.8; 90mm; 39 mm filter  version and the
unsatisfied users have the Wetzlar made version. Or is this too simpe a way
to identify the good Tele-Elmarits?

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