Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/20

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Subject: [Leica] Russian Elmar copy
From: jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Mon Mar 20 15:06:04 2006

Where did you get it? I found a 53/2,8 Russian LTM that came on one of my
FEDs (I have no idea what it is, but the Russian writing doesn't look
anything like "Jupiter"). It may be an Industar. How many Russian 53/2,8
lenses could there be?

Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com




-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Daniel
Ridings
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 10:53 AM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] enough with Olympus DSLR postings PLEASE


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


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