Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 4/3/02 3:51:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, leicam4pro@yahoo.com writes: > My memory tells me that you are refering to the two > F/6.8 s. > > As I remember a famous photographer was given one of > the prototypes to shoot the 1968 US conventions. He did > good work at both covering the convention and creating a > backordered demand for the lenses that did not yet exist. > I think the first deliveries of the production lens were in > 1970, shortly after I returned from 'Nam. I think you are correct on all counts, PP. I may have inadvertently started this thread by referring to an older Leitz telephoto lens, the 400mm f/5 Telyt for Visoflex. The question then posed was whether this lens could be used on the trombone focussing tube of the 400/6,8 (it cannot). Somehow, that elided into this. I believe it was David Douglas Duncan who used the 400/6,8 prototype at the U.S. national conventions in 1968. It is an excellent lens - our buddy Birdman Doug is alleged to have used it - so long as one bears in mind the field curvature. Seth LaK 9 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html