21mm elmarit serial number question

[marke_gilbert]

Can anyone tell me the staring serial number point for the E60 filter

size 21mm elmarit as opposed to the E49?

<P> Ive consulted all the reference materials I have here, to no avail.

<P>Thanks,

[john_collier2]

According to Lager, the E60 filter size 11134 lenses began at 2 993 701. The E49

filter sized lenses were never actually released to the public. Lager only saw them in

pre-production form in 1979 and at Photokina in 1980. He has never seen one since.

All production lenses had E60 filter threads. Never-the-less a few E49 lenses are said

to be kicking about from the batch of pre-production models produced.

[jerry_lehrer]

Marke

 

Michael Hintlian has alleged that he had one of the 49mm versions

of that lens.

 

He was less than enthusiastic about it, but it's value is strictly

in it's rarity, not it's quality.

 

Jerry

[jerry_lehrer]

Marke

 

I found out that the 49mm filter models caused vignetting when a

polarizer or thick ring filters were used. Leica widened the front

of the lens mount so you can use polarizers AND a filter together.

 

Jerry

[d.mayr]

According to http://www.imx.nl/photosite/leica/overview/listm.html

the last Nr. of the E48 version was 2.993.700

 

Greetings from Salzburg

 

Dieter