Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/26

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Summarit 50/1.5
From: Dante Stella <dante@umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 16:23:11 -0400 (EDT)

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!
>
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