Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 12:22 AM 7/20/2003 +0200, animal wrote: >This question : > > Does anyone remember the 35mm-SLR ALPA? > >from Jean-Michel Tomaschett made me realize that i had an Alpa lens >somewhere which was my fathers. >Eventually i found it it in a box in the furthest corner of my basement >where i have stored the radioactive lenses recently after advice from >Michael Briggs, >http://home.earthlink.net/~michaelbriggs/aeroektar/aeroektar.html >Anyhow the lens is rather unusual in that the focusing scale is very long ,a >few turns and it also states the magnification factor. >It is marked Kern macro switar 1:1,9/50 AR made for alpa. >Does anyone have experience wih this lens? >Thanks >simon jessurun >amsterdam For many many years, Alpa was the camera system that I owned and used. I regularly visited the factory in Ballagues Switzerland. And I became friends with the Alpa factory owner, Samuel Bourgeois. The factory passed on to Samuel's son, Benjamin, and after that, it went out of business. On 29th February 1996 Capaul & Weber, purchased Alpa, and Alpa is now a completely different company, and in a different part of Switzerland. For the history, go to: http://www.alpa.ch/alpa/history.html From this page, you can get to the Alpa home page and see what they currently manufacture. Outstanding MF WA cameras. JB - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html