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this Leitz Wetzlar Elmar with an (F) marked on the lens? what is this (F) and can anybody date this lens? the serial number doesn't seem to corrospond with the small amount of information i have on Leitz lenses.
this lens is mounted on a Welta Pearl c1932 and although Welta-Werke did on just a couple of cameras use a Leitz lens i have not heard of or seen any before used on Pearl. also a couple of things with this camea and lens combination dont look quite right to me. 1) the outer ring (distance scale ring) covers up the shutter maker and model name. 2) there doesn't appear to be a stop for the distance scale or a marker to scale against. 3) when a leitz lenses were offered on a Welta it was amongst, if not their most expensive lens/shutter/camera offering and would normaly only be paired with a compur rapid and with this model and year helical focusing should of been used; as oppossed to this camera using a compur shutter and front cell focusing.
anyway i am curious to whether it is origonal and what the serial number dates at and what the (F) in brackets may mean (front cell focusing maybe?)
also note that the aperature setting comes all the way to left to open the aperature all the way but the scale markings dont (4.5) dont begin until half way and continue until f32 which is a little wierd too....
this lens is mounted on a Welta Pearl c1932 and although Welta-Werke did on just a couple of cameras use a Leitz lens i have not heard of or seen any before used on Pearl. also a couple of things with this camea and lens combination dont look quite right to me. 1) the outer ring (distance scale ring) covers up the shutter maker and model name. 2) there doesn't appear to be a stop for the distance scale or a marker to scale against. 3) when a leitz lenses were offered on a Welta it was amongst, if not their most expensive lens/shutter/camera offering and would normaly only be paired with a compur rapid and with this model and year helical focusing should of been used; as oppossed to this camera using a compur shutter and front cell focusing.
anyway i am curious to whether it is origonal and what the serial number dates at and what the (F) in brackets may mean (front cell focusing maybe?)
also note that the aperature setting comes all the way to left to open the aperature all the way but the scale markings dont (4.5) dont begin until half way and continue until f32 which is a little wierd too....
