Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/01

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Subject: Re: [Leica] ELCAN 1/90 US-NAVY
From: Mikiro <arbos@silva.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:57:46 +0200

Thanks, David.  I would be interested how it works in portraits if one could
do something to have it focus down to 2 or 3 meters....  Regards.
Mikiro

At 8:19 pm +0200 31/8/99, David Young wrote:
>The rangefinder was not needed. Leitz Canada built these Canadian designed,
>ELCAN lenses in the late 1960's. They were supplied with a series of rings
>that fixed the focus at 50 meters, 100 meters or infinity. Apparently, the
>66/f2  and the 90/1's were made only as prototypes, but never produced in
>any quantity. They were made (along with a 50mm f2 ELCAN - of which about
>500 were built) to go with the Leica KE-7A - a special black chrome M4 made
>for the US Navy.