Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/27
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With all those "ifs" and buts" you pointed out maybe I better go for a
35/2.8 Summaron instead.
Thanks,
Bill
Marc James Small <msmall@infionline.net> wrote:
At 09:19 PM 3/27/06 -0500, Don Dory wrote:
>Bill,
>This was Leica's first attempt at a 35mm lens. It is adequate at best,
>soft, flare prone, curvature of field, astigmatism, coma and probably not
>coated unless it was one coated during the war for official use.
Or unless it was coated Postwar. Leitz and a lot of other houes offered
coating sevices for cheap into the 1960's. The problem is that Leitz used
a wete-coating technology until they were afforded access to the Zeiss
process in 1960/ The posible upside is that teh lens might well have been
coated by Zeiss, Schneiider, or Voigtl?der, all of wihich offered the
proper vacuum-coating technique to deprived owneers of Leitz lenses from
1948 unto the 1960's.
Marc
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