The very rare 43mm Limited in Leica Screw fitting.
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
It was made for the later Japanese rangefinder cameras with Leica screw mount.
The Leica bayonet mount still had the patent going so the other manufacturers took the next best and made it a screw mount.
No self respecting Leica owner would have used this lens or the later Japanese made Voightlanders
For the Leica screw models, which where really only collector items by then, it was no point to fit any other foreign brand except the early English lenses like Taylor-Hobson or the Dallmeyer super-six 50mm f1.9 or of course canon lenses. And of course the original 50mm f1.5 Voightlander and other German made screw lenses
with Leica screw mount which beat the Summicron in quality.
The Canon 50mm f1.2 was even fitted to the Leica M-lenses and also a couple of special Nikons.
I had a canon 50mm f1.2 and used it on my M3 a fair bit. It was a good lens. Contrary to some 'expert reviewers"
Regards, Horst
No self respecting Leica owner would have used this lens or the later Japanese made Voightlanders
Why ever not? It's Voigtlander incidentally.
“We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity of the whole.” - Henri Cartier-Bresson -
For the Leica screw models, which where really only collector items by then......
Tell that to my 1932 Leica 11 with 5cm Elmar f3.5 - fully serviced by Malcolm Taylor and in use, firing on all cylinders!
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The Pentax Limited 43mm f1.9 but made by Pentax as a Leica screw fit lens, (just for the Japanese market)