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Subject: [Leica] Re: Telling a 35 Aspherical Summilux from a 35 ASPh
From: Cummer <cummer@netvigator.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:56:42 +0800
References: <200303151150.DAA13301@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>

Richard,
The first version of the 35 Summilux Aspherical had two hand ground 
aspherical surfaces and was made in numbers less than 1,000. You can 
tell it by the fact that "aspherical" is spelled out on the front of 
the lens. The current 35 Summilux Asph has one blank moulded glass 
aspherical surface and says "ASPH" on the front of the lens. Picture 
quality between the two models is virtually the same.
Cheers
Howard
Hong Kong

At 3:50 AM -0800 15/3/03, Leica Users digest wrote:
>Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 03:04:18 -0800
>From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com>
>Subject: [Leica] diff between versions of 35 Summilux Aspherical
>Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030315030049.024c0908@192.168.100.11>
>References:
>
>According to Erwin Puts:
>http://www.imx.nl/photosite/leica/overview/listm.html , there are two
>versions of the 35 Summilux Aspherical: 1992-1194 and "Current." Is the
>only way to tell the difference is by the serial #? How about performance?
>The 35 Summilux ASPH supposes to be amazing. Is it similar between these
>two versions, or are both so good that it doesn't matter?
>
>Thanks
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