Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/23

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Puzzling Dilemma
From: Mike Dembinski <mdembin@it.com.pl>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 17:45:20 +0200

Jeremy Kime wrote:

>
> 35/3.5 Summaron, 50/2 Collapsible Summicron and 90/4 Collapsible Elmar.
> The intrigue lies with the Summaron, it keys in the 50mm frame so you'd
> think it was for the M3, but there are no goggles on it, nor any marks where
> they could have been attached, the whole lens looks original, the frame
> finder keying lug has not been re-worked at all.
> The only thought I've had is that maybe early 35mm lenses for the M3 were
> available before the goggles solution was invented? The frame line
> illuminated was perhaps deemed irrelevant as the supplementary finder would
> have been used.
>
> Any thoughts?

Any sign of a factory-attached screw-to-bayonet converter ring? I have one on my
35mm Summicron-M built in Canada.

Mike