Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dante, Nice post ;-) Just to add to the interest, I can add a couple more 105mm lenses made for the LTM system... The British made a lens called the Trinol (105/3.5) which was a coupling of a National Optical Company lens head made in Leicester as an adjunct to Taylor Hobson's factory there, with a focusing mount made by Stewartry in Scotland. This mount may well suit left eye users as it focuses in the opposite direction to practically every other lens made - quite perturbing... I bought my fourth example at the weekend, a late (035508) specimen which is coated and has a black barrel (though all seem to posess a chrome mounting ring). Early versions (e.g. 034903) had chrome barrels, these seem quite uncommon. The coating seems to have been introduced between nos. 035236 and 035330. The second lens which favoured this focal length was made by (Sankyo) Komura in Japan, and though I have one of the viewfinders to match I don't have a lens. regards, Jem - -----Original Message----- From: Dante A. Stella [SMTP:dante@umich.edu] That factory was also the only factory to make a 105mm lens for rangefinder. These non-Leitz LTM lenses are so rare that they don't even appear in the 39mm Diversity! Later, the Soviets abandoned the plant to Mitsubishi and it became known as... Nikon. : ) It's a Monday.