Hi anyLugers,

Has anyone here experienced using a 1930's Mountain Elmar 105mm f6.3 before? I was wondering how applicable this lens is considering that this is a very slow lens relative to what I could be using in today's optics. Of course, I guess that it would be out of nostalgic that one would consider sticking this "baby" on your M camera?

Alfie

-- Alfie Wang (albert.wang@ibx.com), November 07, 2001

Answers

No.

Best wishes and good shooting

-- K. G. Wolf (k.g.wolf@web.de), November 11, 2001.

According to my Hove pocket book, the production figures for the 105mm Elmar is 3975 lenses produced from 1932-1937. This low number of lenses would almost certainly put this in the "collector's" category rather than the "user's" arsenal.

To compare, a 90mm f/4.0 Elmar collapsible numbered 25188, and the 90mm Elmarit (1959-1974 version) had 30,000 units produced in both screw and bayonet mount. Just try to find good examples of these lenses with this volume of potential samples, and you can see that locating one of those 3975 105mm Elmars will be quite daunting.

-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), November 12, 2001.