Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/26

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Subject: RE: [Leica] 35 Summicrons
From: Buzz Hausner <Buzz@marianmanor.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:51:00 -0400

Yup.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Guy Bennett [mailto:guybnt@idt.net]
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 5:44 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: RE: [Leica] 35 Summicrons


>The "spherical" 35 Summicron is a good deal shorter and a tad lighter than
>it's aspherical sister.  I also recommend buying either lens in its black,
>aluminum barrel expression, which is lighter yet and less costly than the
>brass-barreled silver finish.  There are a bunch of books and perhaps web
>sites (Irwin's?) which give the particulars, but I find that an M6 with the
>spherical version mounted slips into my jacket pocket while with the
>aspherical mounted it does not.  I also use the 12585 vented shade in place
>of the square shade supplied with either lens.
>
>	Buzz Hausner


out of wild curiosity, does that 12585 hood fit the asph summicron 35?

guy