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Trivia Question - Reza's camera in Nat. Geo. Jul 2000


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I have a pure trivia question, which I hope is OK for this forum.

 

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I was reading the July 2000 issue of National Geographic, and the front section has a picture of one of their photographers, Reza. He is apparently wearing a black M6, with an auxiliary rectangular viewfinder (black)and a very large diameter lens.

 

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What lens and what finder is he wearing? It can't be a Noctilux, or SUmmicron 90 I figured, because the old auxiliary 50mm and 90mm finders are round. Its too big to be a 35, 28. Maybe a 21?

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The accessory shoe is not centered over the lens axis on M

cameras. The black plastic finders have the shoe offset to try and

compensate for this but are still off to one side. The earlier metal

bodied finders have no shoe offset at all and thus are even

further away from the lens axis.

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So what lens is it? The lens caught my eye, because of its large

diameter. Of course, the finder need not be matched to the lens,

depending on Reza's habits. He could conceivably be leaving the

finder mounted while using a Noctilux or a 75 Summilux or 90

Summricron, using the eyepiece for those. His pictures inside though

suggest that he uses the wide angles a lot.

 

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Nice of you to chip in with the scan Joe!

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  • 2 weeks later...

What I find interesting is the fully round chrome-like reflection of

what appears to be the lens front ring. With late 21 & 24 shades,

you would not see this, due to the flat upper & lower rims of the

shade. You would, however, see this with a late Noctilux because the

square shade is a pull-out, leaving the front ring visible. To me

this eliminates the likelihood of it being a 24mm, which did not

exist previously except with the recent shade. Perhaps this is an

older version of the 21mm Elmarit with an early shade, or even a 21mm

Super Angulon(?).

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