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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Older lens preferences
From: Chandos Michael Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 22:27:34 -0500

She's doing good work with a Leica and can't name the camera?  Wow!

The 35 Summilux was introduced in '61, I think, so doesn't that leave the 
35 Summicron (intro. late 50's) or the Summaron (intro mid-50's in 
M-mount).  I wouldn't characterize the Summaron signature as you have below 
(esp. "three dimensional look"), so if it's Leica at all, then it's 
probably a Summicron.  On the other hand, to an untutored eye, *every* M 
looks as though it were made in the '50's.  Chances are it's a black enamel 
M4 with matching 'lux, don't you just know . . .

Chandos


,

At 08:32 PM 10/31/01 -0500, you 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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