Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/23

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Subject: [Leica] LEITZ not Zeiss
From: Mike Johnston <michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:32:56 -0500

>> Lets not forget he used a Zeiss 50.
> 
> Oh--I didn't know that.  Well, in that case, I'm dumping my M6 and buying a
> G2! (kidding)
> 
> I take it, then, that the Zeiss lens was an LTM version?  I know shamefully
> little about the history of these lenses.



He tried a lot of lenses. But much of his most famous work was taken with a
collapsible 7-element 50mm Leitz Summicron. It is a *classic* Leica lens. I
have this on very good authority and we have argued this before. Q.E.D.

- --Mike