Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/07

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: 90mm Recommendations and new(?) Leica history
From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 17:33:14 -0000

Jim,
Thanks, that's the sort of news I enjoy hearing.

I was down at a 'car boot sale' this morning and bought 15 copies of the 
English 'Amateur photographer' magazine from 1929 and 1930. Lots of lovely 
old Leica ads in them including a model 1 compur (s/h) for 10 pounds 10 
shillings, about 15 US dollars!

The best article was reading (in the Sept. 25th 1929 issue, p287) about the 
first non Leitz lens available for the camera, fitted by A. O. Roth, the UK 
distributors for Meyer lenses, of the Hugo Meyer F1.5 lens. The most 
interesting bit was on discovering that this lens was not a 50mm (as I'd 
read previously) but one of focal length 1 3/8", i.e. 35mm.
What fun! Is this new information for the history books?

Jem

- -----Original Message-----
From:	Jim Bielecki [SMTP:bieleckj@freeway.net]
Sent:	07 January 2001 01:48
To:	leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject:	[Leica] Re: 90mm Recommendations


> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 19:14:29 -0000
> From: Jem Kime <jem.kime@cwcom.net>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: 90mm Recommendations
> Message-ID: <01C07815.0DF85A00.jem.kime@cwcom.net>
> References:
>
> Jim,
> I could wish that someone (maybe that should be me if I'm asking) would
> update the Hove Foto Book on Canon rangefinder cameras  to do justice to
> their lens output. The Nikon equivalent book (Rotoloni) is a good example
> of how to get things right here.
> There was an excellent set of articles in the LHSA's 'Viewfinder' 
magazine
> some years ago about all the various permutations.
>
> Jem

One, I believe, is on the way.  Canon rangefinder guru, Peter Kitchingman,
has been working on such a Canon rangefinder lens book for several years 
now
and I believe it will be published sometime this year.  If I hear more 
about
this book, I'll pass it on.

Jim Bielecki