Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jem: My original post refered to the 28 Summaron which was a product of the late 50s or early 60s. Ken Wilcox At 05:35 PM 3/17/99 -0000, Jem wrote: >Ray, Ken, > >The historical research suggests that the Leitz Summaron was the Xenogon >design, originally masked down to f3.5 and then later modified to re-open it >to f2.8. >The lens seemed to come out of nowhere in the war years, though the Xenogon >preceded it and Leitz had already demonstrated their willingness to buy in >other company's designs, e.g. the Schneider/TTH Xenon. >There was an extensive article in either the LHS or LHSA magazine about >this. - ------------------ Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits LAW LHSA MEA <wilcox@tir.com>