Re: [Leica] 90mm lens question

[Dennis Painter <dpainter@bigfoot.com>]

Simon Stevens wrote:
> 
> I have a couple of questions for the more historically-knowledgeable
> members of the list (which I certainly am not.) I have a 90mm f2
> Summicron SSN 2203xxx. It's one of the larger black Canadian models with
> 2 stage collapsable hood, tripod mount and detachable head. The optical
> quality is very nice indeed with a (to me) lovely bokeh. I have seen
> several similar lenses from roughly the same time period (I belive it's
> from the late sixties) but I have never come accross an identical one.
> Mine has a preset ring in addition to the regular aperture ring. None of
> the others I have ever come across, or seen pictures of, has this
> additional control which obviously makes it ideal for viso use.
> 
> Stephen Gandy's site mentions that all of the 90's were made in
> relatively low numbers, but how common or unusual is this version with
> the pre-set?
> 
With the preset I would say it's not common. The preset lenses were
primarilly for use on the Viso. Yours, from about 1966, is when the
first Leicaflex was out so I would expect demand for Viso lenses to have
been declining.

Dennis