[LRflex] Re: 80-200 f/4 Vario-Elmar


Art wrote:

>The 28/135 combo gives a 4.82:1 magnification ratio, while the 28/180
>combo >gives a 6.428:1 magnification ratio.


Now that puts the 'close' in 'close-up'!

Like you, Art, I wouldn't give up my 6T (bought used for $20 inc. tax from=
 a dealer who didn't know what he had!) for anything.  Results with the=
 Leitz ELPRO's and 50 Summicron are better, however. This, I think, is=
 because the 6T (as with most close-up lenses) is designed to work with any=
 number of lenses.  The ELPRO VIa & VIb were computed to work with only the=
 1st version of the 50 Summicron. (The Elpro 1 & 2 are the E55 versions for=
 the 2nd version of the 50/2.)  Because they were only for use with one=
 lens, they were heavily optimized. 

I have an article on this coming out in, I understand, the next issue of=
 the LHSA's Viewfinder magazine.



David Young,
Logan Lake, BC    
CANADA. 

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