Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/05/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 16:52 01.05.1998 -0300, you wrote: >The serial number of the camera is 258217 and the lens looks like >an uncoated 5cm f2 Summar serial number 383584. According to Laney, it's a Leica IIIa, produced in 1937. The lens is produced in the same year, and is kown for it's soft front element. It is one of my favored lenses because of it's 3D rendition. It's best performance is between f 3.2 and 6.3; at f 2.0 it's very soft and the corners are a little dark. I have chromes, taken at f 9, which agree in sharpness to the rigid chrome Summicron, while color saturation is a little lower. In Germany, you need to pay for that camera (ex+, with box and papers) around DM 1.000, about USD 560, UKP 340, maybe more. Alf - -------------------------------------------------- Alfred Breull http://members.aol.com/abreull/index.htm http://members.aol.com/mfformat/c-mf.htm