Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]- -----Original Message----- From: Eric Welch <ewelch@ponyexpress.net> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: October 04, 1999 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] User question: focus tab on 50 Eric wrote: >Why not call the people who would do that? Or email them. Sherry Krauter >might be able to do it. I love the focus tab on my 35 Summilux ASPH. I >would like one on the 50mm lens I eventually will buy. I would also like a >new version, so this is a topic I would be interested in. Of course, we >could hope if they ever come out with a 50 Summilux ASPH, that it will have >the tab. :-) > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO > Eric et al, I had queried Sherry about this very thing, installing a focusing tab on a 50mm Summicron or Summilux. She in effect replied (and I paraphrase) that if Leica had intended for there to be a tab on these lenses they would have put one there. She felt it inappropriate to deface the lens with an aftermarket modification. This is not to say that I wouldn't like one myself. Carl Socolow