Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: "Jean-Michel Tomaschett" <jx@bluewin.ch> Subject: Re: [Leica] Alpa question > a short history and the link between Kern and Leica: > In 1988 Kern was integrated into the Wild-Leitz Group, which was formed > 1986. ......and the bad deal is that when Wild bought Kern, all Kern records, tooling etc. was destroyed. My source, Ursula Capaul-Weber and Thomas Weber-Capaul, the proprietors of the new ALPA company who tried for some years to acquire Alpa from the receiver in bankruptcy, finally acquiring the intellectual property in the ALPA name, logo and trade dress. Seth > Leica Camera was separated from the Leica Group and became a publicly held > company in 1996. > > Jean-Michel > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joseph Yao" <joseph@yao.com> > To: "Leica User Group" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 12:47 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Alpa question > > > > The Kern Macro Switar 50/1.9 is a very fine lens. It has very high > > resolution (though contrast not as high as modern lenses) and I use one > > regularly with my M6. > > > > Joseph > > > > > > on 20/7/03 6:22 am, animal at s.jessurun95@chello.nl 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 > > > > > > -- > > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html