Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] summar / summitar /Summicron
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Tue Apr 26 14:56:12 2005
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At 09:57 AM 4/26/05 +0100, Peter Dzwig wrote:
>
>I agree about the Summarit; it is fast (1.5), soft-ish wide open, but 
>pretty 
>good stopped down. About $300 for a good one. That's why it is my standard
lens 
>on my IIIf. But it isn't that light.


A good Jupiter-3 can be had for $100 or less and it is ten times the lens
that the Summarit ever could beg to be.  

Marc


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