Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Stanislaw, I'm using three different 50mm screwmount lenses on a IIIc: The 2/5 Summitar (from 1950), 2.8/5 Elmar (1957 i think) and the 3.5/5 Industar (No idea when it was built) which seems to be copy of the 3.5/5 Elmar. I'm not much into lens testing. However, at f3.5, the Industar appears to produce better sharpness in the edges. At f8, sharpness is about the same in all three lenses. The two Leitz lenses are very similar in the way they reproduce colours and both are clearly different from the Industar. I'd say that the Elmar and Summitar have a 'warmer' rendition as compared to the Industar. Vignetting at f11 is less (!) pronounced in the Industar. The consequence is that, for outdoors, I use the Industar. The Summitar is used indoors. Regards Jan _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.