Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jonny Deadman writes: << I've said this before, but I had a 35/3.5 Summaron and it was a pig. Like any leica lens it was sharp as a needle around f8, but I never seem to have that much light, and at 3.5.... yuk. In any case, 3.5 is one stop too slow in many situations. Moreover, it was a goggled M3 lens, which is an ergonomic nightmare. Not one of Leica's high points, IMHO. >> My experience with the 3.5 Summaron has not been completely without angst, but I would not call the lens a pig. Mine (M3 goggled version) came without the eyes, and I had a devil of a time figuring out why it would not focus properly using the rangefinder on my M6. Well that is the way it was designed. When I finally figured the only way to focus was to use the lens scale, it started giving me some very fine photographs. No problem IMO with the 3.5 aperture using 100 speed chrome as the camera is so easily handheld down to 1/15th or even 1/8th second. I think at this point I would not use the goggles even if I had them. Scale focusing is not that difficult. Regards, Paul Connet