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Subject: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M...
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 06:47:05 +0200
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Yawn...100-year old technology, 3.5 max aperture--what is the big deal? If 
you want a really small lens for your M8/M9, just buy the 35mm Summarit.

Cheers,
Nathan

Nathan Wajsman
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YNWA





On Sep 23, 2010, at 4:33 AM, Richard Man wrote:

> ... and no lugger cares? :-)
> 
> http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/09/06/ms-optical-super-triplet-perar/
> 
> Only 180 will be produced. Apparently, Miyazaki san designs and makes the
> lens himself. Since the beans were spilled on RFF a couple weeks ago,
> boatload of Leicaphiles went to order the lens and now it is in backorder.
> 
> I probably won't get one myself. At one point, I owned 3, count them, 3,
> 50mm M lens but I always went for the same one. That's when I realized that
> there is no point for me to own more than one lens of a particular focal
> length (*).
> 
> // richard "ain't no Jeff Smith" man
> 
> (*) with the exception of the Nokton 50/1.1 and the 'lux.
> 
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