Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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