Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 3/20/06, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342@cox.net> wrote: > I was considering getting an old 50/3.5 Elmar and am glad that I didn't. > The elements are too small for John Van Stelten to polish! Right now, the > 50/3.5 > Heliar is closest to the retro look in a contemporary lens. > > Jeffery Psssttt ... I didn't want to mention it because it was off-topic ... but the shot I posted this week: http://dlridings.se/paw/2006/11.html That was with a Russian cousin to the 50/3.5 Elmar. It was with an Industar-50, the collapsible one. It cost me a whopping $28. I priced the 50/3.5 newer Elmars (I have an uncoated, unnumbered one from the early 30'ies) and really couldn't be sure they would be that much better than my trusty uncoated one. So I went with the Industar. It's coated and clean as a whistle. No fungus worries etc. Daniel