Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/16

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Subject: [Leica] RE: need suggestion on leica lens 180mm (filter size not E55)
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:28:26 -0700

The E67 version started at 2939xxx. This is 3191xxx which is much higher. 
Unless I'm missing something, this is the latest version of that lens. I 
don't think S/N's go down...

Jim

At 04:45 PM 4/16/2002 -0400, telyt@earthlink.net wrote:
> > the serial number of the lens that the seller give me 3191xxx.  is
> > this say anything about the lens?
> > would those elpro work with this lens or macro adapter work with this
> > lens ?
>
>This tells me it's not the first-version Elmarit-R since the 2nd-version 
>lens shown on my review page is 2999xxx.  There are no ELPRO lenses made 
>to fit either version of the Elmarit-R so you'd use extension tubes like 
>the macro-adapter-R.  I have no idea what the optical performance is in 
>the close-up range.  The price is good if it's the 2nd version 
>Elmarit-R  This lens uses E67 filters.
>
>Doug Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
>http://www.wildlightphoto.com

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