Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/06/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11.00 1996-06-17 -0400, you wrote: >The editor of RFinder magazine, Joel Tlumak, first acquainted me with this >situation by sharing with me a Japanese test of respective types of >Summicrons. To put it bluntly, the current production Summicron is no mean >performer and is worthy of the Leica moniker -- but the rigid chrome and NF >designs are generally regarded by users as yielding more satisfactory >results, and this Japanese test quantifies this. I do have a copy of this >report. I'll see if I can dig it and post it to the List. > Please do! I think lots of readers on the list should be very interested. I have never seen this type of test before. > >Therefore, there has been a concerted effort -- pioneed, for once, by Leitz >and not Zeiss -- to use computers to reduce lens production costs while >maintaining acceptable quality. Thus, the eight-element 2/35 Summicron >gives way to six elements, and so forth. It's NOT intended to reduce >quality but, sometimes, that's what happens. > Another important factor is that the weight of some lenses have been considerably reduced, using less elements. But I find it hard to beleive that there are any new Leica designs that are inferior to the old ones. If I am wrong, I really would like to know which lenses to avoid! Regards, Hans