Leica Standard w. Snapshot Elmar, 1937, no.253771
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Literatur E James L. Lager (ed.), Leica Illustrated History, Vol. I, 1993, p. p. 45, 46 and Vol. II, 1994, p. 123/124.
The “snapshot” Elmar was announced under catalogue code ELROO in the June 1935 Leitz leaflet The Interchangeable Leica Lenses (List Photo 7333b) and described as follows: “The snapshot lens Leitz Elmar 3.5 cm f/4.5 was especially designed for the Standard Leica (model E) and is not RF-coupled [...] The lens has click-stopped focus points of 1.75, 3 and 10 meters and infinity.” A red insert sheet points out that the lens cannot be delivered “at this time”. In fact, the snapshot Elmar never went into commercial production. A complete specimen is preserved at the Leica Camera AG Factory Museum. A handful of other examples are known to exist worldwide.
The lens offered here was surely re-plated in nickel finish at a later date and shows practically no signs of use today. With clean optics, on matching Leica model E with built-in wide angle finder in black-paint finish with nickel fittings.
The “snapshot” Elmar was announced under catalogue code ELROO in the June 1935 Leitz leaflet The Interchangeable Leica Lenses (List Photo 7333b) and described as follows: “The snapshot lens Leitz Elmar 3.5 cm f/4.5 was especially designed for the Standard Leica (model E) and is not RF-coupled [...] The lens has click-stopped focus points of 1.75, 3 and 10 meters and infinity.” A red insert sheet points out that the lens cannot be delivered “at this time”. In fact, the snapshot Elmar never went into commercial production. A complete specimen is preserved at the Leica Camera AG Factory Museum. A handful of other examples are known to exist worldwide.
The lens offered here was surely re-plated in nickel finish at a later date and shows practically no signs of use today. With clean optics, on matching Leica model E with built-in wide angle finder in black-paint finish with nickel fittings.
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Leica Standard w. Snapshot Elmar, 1937, no.253771
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