Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The 35 Summaron brings up the 50mm frame in all M viewfinders, Stan, and displays the 35mm focal length field in the viewfinder. Tom A. has correctly observed in an article in the curretn LHSA VIEWFINDER magazine that the 35's with eyes is a pain; it is much more bulky and unwieldy in function than appears and, as Tom writes, always seems to get caught on something in the bottom of the bag. If you can do with the lack of speed, the 35/2,8 Summaron is superb optically, overall better than the 8-element 35/2 Summicron (Erwin himself has written to the same effect) except for some slight field curvature, and has become my main user lens except when I must have f/1,4. Seth LaK 9 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stan Yoder" <vze2myh5@verizon.net> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 12:20 AM Subject: [Leica] Summarons-with-eyes query > If you mount one of these on an M2, what happens in the VF? I assume it > calls up the 50mm frame, as I believe it does on the M3. Would I then see > the proper 35mm field of view via the eyes? I realize that the non-eyes > Summarons are the better match with an M2, but I was just wondering. > > TIA, > Stan Yoder > Pittsburgh > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >