On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:22 AM, Brendan MacRae wrote: > I love the Kern lens on the Leica...that's too cool. I > want an Alpa just for the Kern lenses. They are so > sharp they will cut you. Kern-Paillard also made > lenses for the Bolex movie cameras. Beautiful, > precision lenses of terrific quality, makes perfect > sense to adapt one to an M6.
Oddly, though, Kern only made 50mm lenses for Alpa, so far as I know, while making a variety of focal lengths for Bolex. Kern was not connected with Paillard, Bolex was. The Kern factory was primarily a maker of very fine binoculars, including the innovative Focalpin series that were hermetically sealed. The factory still exists, but was bought some years ago by Leica. I have a nice pair of Leica binoculars made in the old Kern factory. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
