Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 50/2 SONNAR Lens for Leica?
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 08:36:13 -0400

At 07:20 PM 8/15/1999 +0000, Dan K. wrote:
>Is there such a thing as a Sonnar lens made for leica?

Before and during the Second World War, Carl Zeiss Jena made small runs of
their 2/5cm and 1.5/5cm Sonnars in LTM.  After the War, production of these
lenses was made in the USSR, and has continued to the present -- the
Russian lenses were initially called "ZK", for "Zonnar Krasnagorsk", and,
from 1952 or so, "Jupiter-8" for the 2/50 and "Jupiter-3" for the 1.5/50.

Marc

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