Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/04/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Best 50 mm LTM lens?
From: Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@dircon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:44:04 +0000
 
At 01:46 PM 4/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I don't have any experience with the Elmar, but I've recently been scanning
>Kodachromes that I shot with the Summitar (the same one I stupidly sold to
>Don Bledsoe), and I am astonished by the character and quality of the
>images.  It's a blast to scan these things with the Nikon LS2000 into c.
>30meg file and then to roam around in them in PhotoShop.  It's really
>remarkable to see how well this lens performs.  I now use the Summicron 50.
> I wish that I'd kept the Summitar.
>CHandos

Does this mean that you actually prefer the results from the Summitar to
the results from the Summicron? And what range of apertures are you talking
about? 

Joe Berenbaum