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05/14/08, 04:17 PM
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Neuer Benutzer
Join Date: 02/24/08
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strange 1930's elmar lens- identifaction please
this Leitz Wetzlar Elmar with an (F) marked on the lens? what is this (F) and can anybody date this lens. the serial number doesn't seem to corrospond with the small amount of information i have on Leitz lenses.
this lens is mounted on a Welta Pearl c1932 and although Welta-Werke did on just a couple of cameras use a Leitz lens i have not heard of or seen any before used on Pearl. also a couple of things with this camea and lens combination dont look quite right to me. 1) the outer ring (distance scale ring) covers up the shutter maker and model name. 2) there doesnt appear to be a stop for the distance scale or a marker to scale against. 3) when a leitz lens was offered on a Welta it was amonst if not their most expensive lens/shutter/camera offering and would normaly only be paired with a compur rapid (although they may of came in a few years later) and with this model and year helical focusing; as oppossed to this camera using a compur shutter and front cell focusing. anyway i am curious to whether it is origonal and what the serial number dates at and what the (F) in brakets may mean (front cell focusing maybe?) cheers Andrew
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05/14/08, 04:30 PM
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Neuer Benutzer
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Re: strange 1930's elmar lens- identifaction please
oh i should add that the apperature f stop scale goes from 4.5 to 32...
32 is kinda unusual but ok maybe that can happen but i notice also the aperature setting arrow/thingy whatever they are called comes all the way to the left where it should but way beyond the 4.5 marking on the shutter!
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05/14/08, 06:00 PM
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Erfahrener Benutzer
Join Date: 01/24/07
Location: Brescia
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Re: strange 1930's elmar lens- identifaction please
Clearly, NOT ORIGINAL... F is for "Fake" , German fakers of the '30s were serious people and signed their works... nothing to share with the Russian "Elmarski" that were simply engraved "Elmar" !!!
 Sorry for the joke... haven't ideas about... and, to go on in this spirit, true that Leitz has provided lenses for other camera makers... and they still do it nowadays, but the manufacturers who mount Leica lenses are also targeted by Leica competitors in the glass business... Lumix_with_Tessar105.jpg |
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