Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2018/08/18

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Subject: [Leica] Lens comparo
From: hcummer at gmail.com (Howard Cummer)
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2018 08:54:54 -0700
References: <mailman.1077.1534303248.2555.lug@leica-users.org>

Morning Luggers,

Was at the Zen Cafe on Yew Street in Vancouver yesterday for the Friday 
gathering of Leica lovers. The Friday meeting is a legacy of Tom Abrahamsson 
who lived across the street. 

I took along my freshly coded Leica 40mm Summicron (made 1974) which my M10 
reads as a 35mm Summicron Version IV and Don Goldberg has shaved the frame 
claw on the bayonet to bring up 35 framelines on the M10.

Here is a picture of Zenner Michael taken with his 35 Summicron Asph @4.0 on 
my now fully functional (so far) M10. No processing at all.

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Michael35mm.jpg.html
 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Michael35mm.jpg.html>>

And here is Michael again - taken with my 1974 Leica M 40mm Summicron also 
at f4.0 on my M10 and presented without any processing.

<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Michael40mm.jpg.html
 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/2018+photos/Michael40mm.jpg.html>>

Note the similarity in Bokeh - check out the lights in the background - and, 
I must say, I think the 44 year old lens performs very well. I was going to 
buy a used 35 Summicron Asph but I don?t think I?ll bother.

You can look large if you like. Comments and insights welcome as always.

Howard




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