Re[2]: [Leica] 40-45 mm M lenses

[Peterson_Art@hq.navsea.navy.mil]

     The 40mm Summicron, designed and produced for the Leica CL, "is indeed 
     tiny," as you said, and "was made in Wetzlar."  But IF it is smaller 
     than the late-model pre-aspherical 35mm Summicron, the differences are 
     insignificant; both lenses are similarly quite small.
     
     And the 40mm Summicron calls up NOT the 35mm framelines in a Leica M 
     camera, but rather the 50mm framelines, just as it does on the CL, in 
     which those 50mm framelines appear together with the 40mm framelines.
     
     Art Peterson
     

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Subject: Re: [Leica] 40-45 mm M lenses
Author:  leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at internet
Date:    3/7/98 2:42 PM


If you want a smallish lens in the 40mm range, pick up a used 40mm/2.0 
Summicron that was made for the Leica CL.  (Del's has one at $395 in 
condition 9.)  The camera may have been made by Minolta in Japan, but my 
copy of this lens was made in Wetzlar.  It is indeed tiny, smaller than 
I remember the 35mm lenses being.  I don't remember which frame line it 
called up on an M (all I have at the moment is the CL) but it was 
probably the 35mm.  Makes for a very small package.