Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Summaron: No Dogs Allowed!
From: "Steve LeHuray" <icommag@toad.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 10:59:39 -0400

Except for being slow, the Summaron 35mm 3.5 is an excellent lens.
steve
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>From: "Moore,Andrew" <moorea@andovercontrols.com>
>To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Summaron: No Dogs Allowed!
>Date: Tue, Jun 15, 1999, 10:13 AM
>

>
>> I cannot understand why the Summaron is thought to be such a 'dog'!
>
>By "jeez, why did I buy that..." I wasn't saying the lens was a dog.
>In fact, I really like it.  It's just that I was all excited about
>buying it, thinking I'd use it all the time on the IIIf, and I've
>used it maybe twice.  One of those times was on a test shot comparied
>to a 35/2 Summicron-M (last version before ASPH) and I saw very little
>difference (I don't look too hard, but I'm not blind either! :)
>