Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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.