Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The 24/2.8-R lens is optically unchanged from 1974, its inception. It is a Minolta design. I believe that Leica buys the lens elements from Minolta but manufactures - assembles the lens in Germany. It is a great 24mm lens, upholding all of Leica's standards. Jim At 11:34 AM 8/14/99 -0400, you wrote: >I have gotten a used 24mm f2.8 Elmarit-R that is in very nice shape. I >think it is the current version (it has the "24" focal length indication >next to the depth-of-field scale). It says "Made in Germany." Is this >lens the one designed by Minolta and made by Minolta, as Eastland says in >the R Compedium, and only assembled by Leitz in Germany? Or is this an >all-Leitz lens? >