Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:32 PM 7/16/96 -0400, Charles E. Love, Jr. wrote: >Claude--The old 35 Summilux (very recently discontinued) was, a friend at >Leitz tech services told me, by far the poorest of the current M lenses. >The design is so old, he said, that it was the last of their lenses designed >without the help of a computer! Optically, it remained the same from the >time it was introduced in 1961! (See Rogliatti for confirmation.) Well, Leitz designed all Wetzlar-produced lenses from 1949 onwards by computer, so I seriously suspect your friend hadn't a clue as to what was going on -- see Rogliatti, as you snippily advise, for confirmation. Second, instead of passing on some stale hearsay -- have you ever USED one of these? They work and, as Roger Hicks smuggly points out, at f/1.4 they blow the doors of the f/2 Summicron. In any event, if you like the Summicron, try the FIRST generation lens, the eight-element jobby. Quite possibly you'll not be happy with the current version thereafter. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!