Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:17 AM 10/19/01 -0400, you wrote: >Lenses? You can go back to the >early 30's and buy a lens manufactured by the best in the business however >you define that; Zeiss, Leica, Canon, Nikon, Reid, Kodak through their >optical proxies, Schneider, OK maybe not Rodenstock, Don As I have urged on this List before, serious students are urged to buy that wittily crafted and authoritative work, NON-LEITZ LEICA THREAD-MOUNT LENSES: A 39mm DIVERSITY, available in the US from Petra Kellers at <http://www.camerabooks.com> In that slim but weighty tome, we learn that Rodenstock produced LTM versions of the 2.8/35 and 2/50 Heligon, and supplied an anonymous 2/50 LTM lens -- quite possibly a Heligon -- for the Italian Perseo II camera. Seek and ye shall find! And buy the book! Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html