{"id":31624,"date":"2025-06-07T01:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T05:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=31624"},"modified":"2025-06-05T22:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T02:24:53","slug":"the-old-is-new-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-old-is-new-again\/","title":{"rendered":"the old is new again &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31625\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mandler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31625\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31625\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mandler-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31625\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the &#8216;Mandler&#8221; 35mm f\/2 lens to be made in China. Photo courtesy of Leica Rumors<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. &#8230; or is nothing sacred these days? In 1975 I bought a 35mm summicron for my new Leica. I later (much later) learned it was the third iteration of \u00a0the lens and designed up in Midland by Dr Mandler. The lens was boldly marked &#8220;LEITZ CANADA&#8221; \u00a0around the lens front along with the name &#8220;SUMMICRON&#8221;, serial number, speed, and focal length.<\/p>\n<p>A recent email from Wayne Ridley alerted me to a forth-coming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcameraworld.com\/cameras\/lenses\/china-just-made-a-knock-off-leica-lens-and-named-it-after-legendary-leica-designer-walter-mandler\">Chinese knock-off<\/a> of the 50+ year old pre-aspherical-element lens. The new model was announced by<a href=\"https:\/\/leicarumors.com\/\"> Leica Rumors<\/a> and picked up by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcameraworld.com\/\">Digital Camera World<\/a>. Rumors tag it as a seven elements design although the original late 1950s lens was said to be an eight element design and the newer (pre aspherical element) lenses were a six element design.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Mandler moved to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Mandler\">Midland<\/a> after ww2 and remained in Canada for the rest of his life while camera and non-military lenses \u00a0manufacture returned to Europe as the Leitz organization struggled to avoid dissolution (another story).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. &#8230; or is nothing sacred these days? In 1975 I bought a 35mm summicron for my new Leica. I later (much later) learned it was the third iteration of \u00a0the lens and designed up in Midland by Dr Mandler. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-old-is-new-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,401,1628,1162],"class_list":["post-31624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities-other","tag-leica","tag-lens","tag-mandler","tag-wide-angle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31629,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31624\/revisions\/31629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}