Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/02/19
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Gary,
I can comment on half of your request (as I have done on here before).
I now have a 35mm Summicron and have loved and used it for nearly three
decades. I had a Summilux along the day, and gave it up because I found it to
not be as fine a lens as the f/2. The differences I noted were less
sharpness at f/2, and f/2.8. I found the Summicron was almost perfect at
everything but wide open. I used that lens for more published pictures in
LIFE, TIME, NEWSWEEK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC etc than I made with any other lens
(until I moved more and more into SLRs and then stopped keeping track of
which lens was used for which picture).
I kept that Summicron because it is a classic.... small, light, fast, and
capable of great quality.
I once had a much slower 35mm lens for rangefinder Leicas and it was not as
good as the Summicron.
So, based on this fairly limited experience, I would opt for the f/2 as a
lens as good as they get.
Fred
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