Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What do you mean - not an M - a screw mount, perhaps? My Summicron of the same configuration definitely says Summicron-M - and I do think that all lenses with M bayonet mount are M lenses. I have never heard that there is a separate M series of lenses. All the best! Raimo photos at http://personal.inet.fi/private/raimo.korhonen - -----Alkuperäinen viesti----- Lähettäjä: Krechtz@aol.com <Krechtz@aol.com> Vastaanottaja: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Päivä: 07. elokuuta 2000 0:03 Aihe: Re: [Leica] 50mm lens >In a message dated 8/6/00 5:14:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, >belinkoff@earthlink.net writes: > <snip> >According to Sartorius, the Summicron-M was intro'd in 1994, with built-in >hood and same glass as its immediate predecessor with separate hood, from >1979, which began with SN c.2,967,000. I have this model, and it's a very >potent performer. According to the Leica Pocket Book, the serial number >indicates manufacture in about 1989, I would guess. The latest year they >show is 1987, which ended at 3455870. Code numbers are 11819 for black and >11825 in chrome. Technically, the lens is evidently not a Summicron-M but a >Summicron, and you might suggest to the seller that it should fetch a lower >price, if it has been advertised as the M model. > >Joe Sobel