Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/01/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There are an odd family of 1.5/5.8cm lenses in Leica thread-mount. These are clearly of Postwar provenance and are almost certainly not true Zeiss products, though their exact provenance remains more than a bit of a mystery. Most are simply marked "Sonnar" though a few are marked "Leica-Sonnar" and two are marked "Sonnarex", an otherwise unremarked moniker. Forty of these lenses are known to exist. I recently acquired my third, a "Sonnarex" bearing serial number 1498512. Unlike my other two, which are in shiny aluminium mounts, this one comes in a rather bronze-tinged aluminium finish and with a completely flat front lens-ring. Its markings are identical to my others (f/1.5 to f/11, DOF and distance markings in meters, a small "m" for meters instead of the large "M" used on Soviet/Post-Soviet lenses), though my earliest lens turns clockwise for both distance and aperture while the later two turn withershins for both. I guess I'll have to try it on my IIIc: I think I have some film in it at the moment. Marc msmall@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