Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And come to think of it, on examination my Summar is at 2 o'clock - meaning that only the Soviets were nice (perverse?) enough to have the scale in the "up" position. "A.H.SCHMIDT" wrote: > Dante A. Stella wrote: > > > Canon and Nikon LTM lenses are at the 2 o'clock position > > Early Soviet LTM lenses are at the 12 o'clock position. Late are usually 1 or > > 2. > > Leica is straight up. > > > > Depends on the lens. > > > > All the Leitz screw mount lenses line up at the 2 O'Clock position. So do all the > non Leitz screw mount lenses I have ever used or seen. This includes the real > Voigtlander, Dallmeier, > Taylor Hobson etc. This goes for all focal length lenses. not just the 50mm. > > Leitz advertised at the early days of the screw mount cameras, that with a Leica > camera it is possible to see and read all the camera and lens settings by looking > down to the camera from the top. Even on the slow speed setting, the knob had such > a shape, to enable one to view it from the top. However, with an auxiliary view > finder mounted on the accessory shoe, it would have not been possible to see the > depth of field scale and the distance setting mark, had this been at the 12 > O'Clock position. The Leitz universal view finders stuck out a fair bit towards > the front of the camera. The only Leitz lenses which could not fulfill this > requirement, where the screw mount Elmar 50mm f3.5 and the Hector 50mm f2.5. These > lenses had the aperture setting only visible by looking at the front of the lens. > > All bayonet mount Leitz lenses have the distance setting mark at the 12 O'clock > position. > > Regards, Horst Schmidt