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Black 90 Summicron with Pre-set aperature


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Sometime back there was a forum request for an early 90 Summicron, in Black Paint with the special order pre-set aperature feature. Here is a photo of both the chrome and black paint versions of this lens. Also included are the correct vintage short mounts for use of this lens on the visoflex.

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Leitz offered black paint lenses upon special order from about 1959.  It seems they do not appear in catalogs until 1962, still described as "upon special request".  The pre-set aperature feature was cataloged in 1959 for both short and long mount and had it's own order numbers. The long lenses and short focusing mount of this period had the "split-line" focusing distance scale.  A very few black paint screw mount 90 summicrons have been noted,but I have not seen one with the pre-set feature.

 

 

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Just some thoughts. I just wonder whether Leica decided that as they were providing a pre-set for use with the Visoflex with short mount, they should provide a special order pre set model as well to facilitate people who were using both RF and Viso with a black lens. This would be the only thing that would make any sense of this. In any event, this seems to have been a short lived idea making this into another fascinating collector's item.

 

William

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