Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/31

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Older lens preferences
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 18:46:33 -0800

An educated guess would be any Leitz/Leica 35mm lens prior to the ASPH 
series lenses.

Jim


At 08:32 PM 10/31/2001 -0500, ARTHURWG@aol.com wrote:
>A woman today showed me some portraits she had  shot recently, and I was
>struck by the wonderful soft glow of her subjects, the three dimensional
>look, beautiful out-of-focus portions of the pictures  and the wide  tonal
>range of her prints. All this  immediately identified them to me as Leica
>shots.  I questioned her further and  she said that the camera and lens  were
>from the 1950s, and that the lens was a 35mm. She had no further details. So
>my question: which of the older lenses (in M mount) produce that wonderful
>glow so closely associated with Leica?
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