Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 07:08 PM 4/13/2007, Jeffery Smith wrote: >I do have a 35/2.8 LTM Summaron, but I hate to take it out into rough areas >of town (that would be everywhere within a 60 mile radius of my house). It >is a wonderful lens. Oddly, Puts seems lukewarm on it. I've gotta stop >reading reviews and just look at people's images taken with different >lenses. Good heavens! Jeffery, if you're going to take the lens into Areas of Threat, then spend $50 and get a 2.8/35 Jupiter-12. It is a bit slow but was the standard against which Canon and Nikon fought to equal until Bertele trumped them with his Postwar design. The Nikon lenses have been out of production since 1960, though NOS remained available until 1977. The Canon lenses left production around 1970 though NOS lenses remained for sale into the early 1980's. The Soviet Jupiter-12 was in production from 1951 until at least after the fall of the Soviet Union and was made in quantities much greater than the combined Nikon and Canon runs. The lens is optically superb (it is at least the equal of the faster Nikon and Canon lenses, if not their superior) while being most inexpensive. For that matter, given your venturing outside the Louisiana Green Zone, why not pick up a Zorki 4 or FED 5B to reduce your risk to a total of $85 or so, if that? Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!