Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, I know we've had this discussion before, but the Opton Sonnar and its Nikkor counterpart are both light-years ahead of the SPS Jupiter-3. On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Marc James Small wrote: > The 1.5/5cm Summarit is a coated version of the earlier Xenon lens produced > by co-operation between Leitz, Schneider, and Taylor, Taylor, Hobson. It > is a pretty fair lens for its era but cannot hold a candle to the 1.5/5cm > Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar or the later Zeiss-Opton or Carl Zeiss variant of > that lens. > > Those wanting the absolute in optical quality for an LTM camera probably > should pick up either a thread-mount Zeiss Jena Sonnar or its SPS clone, > the Jupiter-3. The last is most attractive as it can generally be had for > $100 or less. > > Marc > > msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > -- > 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