Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/10/19

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Subject: [Leica] Leica announces Summaron-M 28mm f/5.6
From: ken at iisaka.com (Ken Iisaka)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:05:44 -0700
References: <D42D1ED6.6754D%mark@rabinergroup.com> <3b4f3d425f4209862c4bf52e9cc90328@mail.gmail.com>

It reminds me of the Olympus' "body cap" lenses that come in 15mm and 9mm
fisheye focal lengths. Of course, the Summaron can be expected to perform
much better, at about 20-40x the cost.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Jim Shulman <jshulman at judgecrater.com>
wrote:

> Suddenly it's 1955.  That was the speed of their "replacement" Summaron
> (the one that replaced the f6.3 model!)  Meanwhile, Nikon and Canon were
> making 3.5 28s in LTM (with Canon going one better, with a 2.8)  It was a
> strangely obsolete max aperture then, and certainly now.
>
> Go figure....
> Jim
>
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