Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've been looking at the PDF on the site for the O. camera. In a way it is like the Hasselblad superwide. A simple life support system for a lens. And an interesting lens it is too: "Powerful optics The lens construction is also faithful O. he original –a Leitz Anastigmat 50 mm f/3.5 in a collapsible mount with a bayone lock for he extended position. Its optical performance is comparable that of he later Elmar 50 mm f/3.5,in fact it sometimes surpasses it." The viscral feeling of putting the leather lens cap against the lens as you wind it i could maybe live without. I wonder if people just pressed the camera up against their shirt. Or their saber tooth tiger vests... As they wound it instead of fumbling for the dangly leather disk? I bet they did. This lens intriges me. Always has. mark rabiner O tra retro are us