Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/04/27

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Subject: Re: 50mm Summicron's
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 20:26:40 -0400

At 07:59 PM 4/27/97 EDT, Don J Rorschach wrote:
>We should do some side-by-side comparisons using the old Summicrons versus
the
>new APO's.  Probably be a waste of time testing against the new non-APO's
as I
>would expect the old lenses to come out ahead.
>
>If anyone has done such a test, please let us know.

Erwin Putts has conducted a number of such tests and has posted his results
here.  Our extensive (but unindexed) Archives should have them.

His results have tended to favour the current lenses for both contrast and
resolution, as I recall.

Marc


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