Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Fw: Summitar, Elmar, Jupiter
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2000 08:59:05 -0500

> I will be reposting this as long as aomeone write
> a answer. And if someone thinks about killfile,
> I will dig out from there and shout and be ghastly :-)
>
> Seriously: Doesn't anyone have anything to add?
> Better discuss about cowshit?
>                                 St.
>                      (Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy)
>               http://www.geocities.com/Stanislaw_Stawowy
>
Stanislaw,

The reason is that not very many people on the LUG use these lens. And,
photographers doing unscientific lens tests is in disrepute.

Steve
Annapolis

>
>> Hello friends!
>> I recently tested these three lenses:
>> Coated Summitar 2/50 collapsible
>> Coated Industar 22 3.5/50 collapsible (is this a Elmar copy?)
>> Coated Jupiter 3 1.5/50 - Sonnar copy
>>
>> Results are somewhat strange for me:
>>
>> At f/2 Jupiter was way ahead of Summitar
>> At f/4 Industar/Elmar outperformed (wide open!) both
>> Jupiter and Summitar, Jupiter took second place.
>> At f/5.6 all lenses performed equally well
>> At f/8 Summitar was best, Jupiter and Industar were worse,
>> but still acceptable quality
>>
>> At similar scale, Jupiter 12 (2.8/35, recent production)
>> outperformed all these lenses from f/4 up to f/8
>>
>> Please comment this. I hope both Marc Small and Erwin Puts
>> will have something to say about optical qualities of these lenses.
>>
>>
>>                                 St.
>>                      (Stanislaw B.A. Stawowy)
>>               http://www.geocities.com/Stanislaw_Stawowy
>>
>>
>