Re: 40mm Summicron vs. 40mm Rokkor...?

[Pablo_Mendoza@roosevelt-provost.ucsd.edu]

     In the mid-eighties, I had both lenses for about a year.  I 
     subsequently sold the 40 M-Rokkor and kept the 40 Summicron.
     
     Here's why:
     
     Using PKL 200 and PKL 64-
     
     The M-Rokkor didn't have the same color saturation as the Summicron.  
     Though the lens was sharp, it just didn't have the same snap.
     
     Using Tri-X, and later TMX 100 & 400-
     
     The M-Rokkor exhibited some pin-cushion distortion at 8X10 and this 
     was really evident at 11x14 and 16x20.  The Summicron didn't exhibit 
     pin-cushion distortion until 11x14.
     
     The contrast of the M-Rokkor was fair as compared to the Summicron, 
     which is excellent.
     
     Good luck, I hope this helps.  Good equipment, though I sold mine to 
     get rid of the battery and repair problems (that as in the L & L/m CL 
     bodies I used to have).  Japan is even discontinuing production of the 
     mercury cell.
     
     Take care
     
     Pablo 
     pmendoza@ucsd.edu


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Subject: 40mm Summicron vs. 40mm Rokkor...?
Author:  0002022804@mcimail.com at @UCSD
Date:    05/11/1995 5:15 PM


-- [ From: Jack Hamilton * EMC.Ver #2.3 ] --
     
As the fates would recently have it, I was recently (in the last week) able to 
pick up a "Leitz/Minolta" CL, with a Japanese made 40mm Rokkor lens...The price 
was "real right"---so I could pass it up. In my Leica collection I presently 
have a "Leica CL" complete with the 40mm Wetzler-made Summicron-C and a 90mm 
Wetzler-made Elmar-C.
     
What kind of realistic comparison should I expect from color transpar. made 
with the two different 40mm lenses.
     
I assume that the Minolta Rokkor is a "copy" of the Summicron, albeit licensed.
     
Any one here used both?
     
Cordially,
Jack Hamilton
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA
     
     
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