Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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? >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html