Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Yes it focuses closer and is rangefinder coupled and parallax corrected. It is optically the same as the first version Rigid Summicron, a formula that some folks favor even today. Ken Wilcox At 2:07 -0800 12/31/99, a fine scholar, Guy Bennett wrote: >lugfolk, > >what's the skinny on the summicron dr? is it just that if focuses closer >than the non-dr summicrons? (and if so, what's the big deal?) does it do >any other tricks? > >at this point, it's just curiosity, but in the past, curiosity has >inevitably lead to the excessive spending of money, and as w. blake wrote, >'the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.' > >guy - ---- Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits preferred---> <wilcox@tir.com> <kwilcox@gfn.org>