Archive for the ‘R8’ Category

A Hologon for Leica R

May 5, 2024
A googly-eyed lens on my R8

It’s a Super-Elmar-R 1:3,5 15mm I got yesterday in the Wetzlar Leica Classic Store. Last year, during a workshop, I took a few picture of some Leitz Park features with such a lens:

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35 for 8

June 8, 2023
Three candidates that were ultimately unsuccessful.

A new, old camera system without a wide angle? No, you can’t.

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The Hunchback Of Wetzlar

May 20, 2023

Oh, okay, they called it the “Hunchback of Solms” when it was produced in that Leica company headquarters in the late nineties, early naughties. But I got mine yesterday in Wetzlar in the Classic Store on the Leitz Park campus.

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