[Leica] Leica M3 plus Summilux and Summaron

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

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--- On Wed, 3/18/09, John Collier <jbcollier at shaw.ca> wrote:

> From: John Collier <jbcollier at shaw.ca>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M3 plus Summilux and Summaron
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 8:58 PM
> Please remember that there was an M mount  35 mm Summaron
> f3.5. The early version had no goggles, brought up the 50 mm
> framelines and was meant to be used with the SBLOO finder --
> though you could just use the entire M3 finder.
> 
> John
> On 18-Mar-09, at 6:53 PM, H. Ball Arche wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Since the Summaron is the non-goggle type, take this
> deal - its a good one. Like I said, you can turn over the M3
> and get an M2 and be ahead of the game. The M2 summarons
> usually go for something above US$800, and you said this one
> is minty.
> > 
> > --- On Wed, 3/18/09, Leina Gonzalez
> <gonzalel at online.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Leina Gonzalez <gonzalel at online.de>
> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M3 plus Summilux and
> Summaron
> >> To: lug at leica-users.org
> >> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 3:50 PM
> >> I hope that I have hit the correct reply button.
> Thanks all
> >> so much for your responses, re: just wait for the
> M2,
> >> excellent point and I've been waiting for many
> months to
> >> find a decent body and matching lens, I don't
> know what
> >> is going on but it seems that there are only super
> mint
> >> bodies or trashed bodies but not much in between.
> I've
> >> not only searched the auction site but camera
> shops,
> >> classifieds, ect. I'm in Europe, where have
> they all
> >> gone??? It isn't that I don't want an M3
> (no
> >> complaints here) aside from the lack of a 35mm
> frame line,
> >> and potential viewfinder problems; but I did the
> M2 v. M3
> >> question for a while and finally decided to try
> the M2. In
> >> the meantime I've learned that the Summaron is
> indeed
> >> the model that uses no goggles, but how that
> should work
> >> with the M3, I don't know. I found this link:
> >>
> https://www.leicashop.com/vintage/summaron-2835mm-p-308.html
> >> it is the lens that I have been offered and the
> store here
> >> lists it as for the M3, does anyone have any
> experience with
> >> this? Maybe I am missing something here. And
> Chris, what do
> >> you mean by "it still pulls up the 50mm frame
> >> line"? Sorry for the question, still
> learning...
> >> 
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