Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/03
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I'm now using a 35 Summicron and it is outstanding. The lens is
compact, weight less and exceptionally sharp. I used a Summilux
before. It is also wonderful, however, it doesn't fit my handy camera
bag and it is unusual to use the f1.4 because you usually stop down to
f4 or f5.6. Even at f2, I think the Summicron is better. German lenses
used to have their largest f-stop to be usable instead of being
a viewed through satisfaction in SLR. I prefer to place money on the
Summicron and invest another lens like 90f2 or 21.
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Subject: Summilux v Summicron Re: M6 Titanium
Author: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us at SMTP
Date: 1/3/97 12:07 PM
To paraphrase Dennis Laney in Leica Lens Practice...
Don't buy the high speed optic unless it will be used OFTEN at wide open.
If it will, you need it. If it won't your wasting your money.
kw
>Anyway, thanks to my newfound sense of economics I can now afford a 35/1,4
>Summilux (not the aspherical), instead of the 35/2.0 Summicron. Any
>opinions about that would be equally welcome. I really need a 35mm lens.
>
>Regards,
>
>Claes
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