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* 35mm f/1.2 Aspherical Nokton with Armalite hood, the fastest ever production 35mm lens for 35mm cameras | * 35mm f/1.2 Aspherical Nokton with Armalite hood, the fastest ever production 35mm lens for 35mm cameras | ||
* 35mm f/2.5 Color-Skopar P type II | * 35mm f/2.5 Color-Skopar P type II | ||
| − | * 40mm f/1.4 Nokton, the fastest ever production 40mm lens for 35mm rangefinder cameras<!-- what faster 40mm lens does exist other than for rangefinder cameras? --> | + | * 40mm f/1.4 Nokton, the fastest ever production 40mm lens for 35mm rangefinder cameras<!-- what faster 40mm lens does exist other than for rangefinder cameras? [Rebollo fr] I don't know, but there are many SLR lenses, and since for example Canon made an f1.4 24mm lens even back in the FD days, I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear of a fast 40mm lens. But if you're pretty sure there isn't one, do please remove "rangefinder cameras". [Hoary] --> |
* 50mm f/2 collapsible Heliar | * 50mm f/2 collapsible Heliar | ||
Revision as of 07:37, 15 February 2007
The lens mount of the Leica M 35mm rangefinder camera was introduced in 1954 with the Leica M3, together with a range of lenses. It has been on all the Leica M series up to the current Leica M7.
This lens mount has also been used by Minolta on the Minolta CLE rangefinder camera, by Konica on the Hexar RF, by Voigtländer (Cosina) on the late models of the Bessa range, by Rollei on the Rollei 35RF (practically a Bessa under Rollei's name), and very recently by Zeiss Ikon on the latest Zeiss Ikon rangefinder camera.
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Leica lenses
With the Leica M:
- 35mm f:2 Summicron
- 50mm f:2 Summicron
- 50mm f:2.8 Elmar
- 90mm f:2.8 Elmarit
- 90mm f:4 Elmar
With the Leica CL:
- 40mm f:2 Summicron-C
- 90mm f:4 Elmar-C
- 40mm f:2.8 Elmarit-C
Elcan lenses
Ernst Leitz Canada made special military lenses under the ELCAN name:
- Elcan 50mm f/2, for the Leica KE-7a
- Elcan 66mm f/2
- Elcan 90mm f/1, apparently without helical, focused by extension rings
See this informative post at a Leica forum.
Konica lenses
With the Hexar RF:
- 21mm/35mm f/3.4 / f/4
- 28mm f/2.8
- 35mm f/2
- 50mm f/2
- 50mm f/1.2
- 90mm f/2.8
- Review of 50/2 and review of 90/2.8 by Davidde Stella (via Wayback, therefore slow)
- Examples from the 90/2.8 by Dante Stella
Minolta lenses
With the Leica CL:
- 40mm f:2 M-Rokkor
- 90mm f:4 M-Rokkor
With the Minolta CLE:
- 28mm f:2.8 M-Rokkor
- 40mm f:2 M-Rokkor (new version)
- 90mm f:4 M-Rokkor (new version)
Voigtländer lenses
With the Bessa T, R2, R2A, R3A, R2M, and R3M:
- 35mm f/1.2 Aspherical Nokton with Armalite hood, the fastest ever production 35mm lens for 35mm cameras
- 35mm f/2.5 Color-Skopar P type II
- 40mm f/1.4 Nokton, the fastest ever production 40mm lens for 35mm rangefinder cameras
- 50mm f/2 collapsible Heliar
Other Cosina Voigtländer lenses are screwmount and need an adapter to fit on the later Bessa bodies.
Rollei lenses
With the Cosina made Rollei 35RF:
- 40mm f/2.8 Sonnar
- 80mm f/2.8 Planar
Rollei also announced at one point that they were going to release a 28mm lens and a 50mm lens, but lost interest in the 35RF (really a Cosina Bessa R2) system.
Carl Zeiss lenses
With the Zeiss Ikon rangefinder:
- 15/2.8 Distagon
- 18/4 Distagon
- 21/4.5 C Biogon
- 21/2.8 Biogon
- 25/2.8 Biogon
- 28/2.8 Biogon
- 35/2 Biogon
- 50/2 Planar
- 50/1.5 C Sonnar
- 85/2 Sonnar
Links
General links
In French:
