Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/07

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Subject: Re: Summaron 35mm f3.5
From: wilcox@umcc.umich.edu (Ken Wilcox)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 06:56:19 -0400

The lens will not work properly without the "eyes". It will work properly
on your M cameras, compressing the 35 view into the 50 lines.

kw

>Greetings,
>
>        When I was in Singapore I bought a Summaron 35mm 3.5 (1958 according
>to the Leica pocket book) because it was in pristine shape, reasonable in
>price and I just liked the looks of it.  I don't know a thing about this
>lens so I have a couple of questions:
>
>1.  From what I have been able to find out so far the spectacle finder is
>for the M3.  Should I just remove this for use with the M6 and M4-P?
>
>2.  What kind of results should I expect from this lens?  I haven't shot
>anything with it as yet.
>
>Ian Stanley
>
>Kathmandu, Nepal

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