Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I recently picked up a lot of Leica gear on e-Bay. Among this stuff was a 4.5/105mm PAM Britar, a rather mysterious US-made LTM lens about which very little is know. With the lens came its 4" auxiliary viewfinder, in box -- and, on the box, it identified the manufacturer as "Photographic Arts Manufacturing Corporation, 45 West 19th Street, New York, New York". I've never heard of this company before but it IS nice to have the "PAM" decyphered. Bob Pins has long opined that the Britar was to be the long-focus lens for the civilian Kardon camera, and this is made a bit more likely by the box's inscription "Leica or Kardon". Does anyone else know anything else about this company or any other products it might have made? Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html