Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric, While I miss the 35mm Summicron spherical, I was fine letting go of the 35mm Summicron Asph, though sooner or later I will get one in LTM version. If anybody is thinking of selling his/hers, let me know. I didn't do so well when I let go of the 24mm Apsh, (but then you knew that - how many Luggers sold and then bought the same lens back from the buyer ? LOL). I might have to let go of that lens again, as I don't use it often enough. Another lens that I sold that took me a while to get over is the 90mm Tele-Elmarit thin. My sample was clean as a whistle, in looks and in performance. I feel a lot better now that I have the Cosina Voigtlander 90mm Apo Lanthar. I like it much better than the Tele-Elmarit, and have it in LTM to boot. At one point the 90mm was my favorite focal lens in Leica M, and I had used 4 different ones, including the Apsh Apo Summicron. I have been seeing a bit wider lately, and seem to hover between 35mm and 50mm. The last lens I will let go will be the 35mm Summilux Asph. Next to last would be the lowly 50mm Summicron. I had mine CLA by Gerry Smith at Kinderman in Toronto recently. I like the 50mm Summicron so much I have the LTM version also, and learned to accept the 1m minimum focus distance, which was hard to do. Cheers, - - Phong eric wrote: > wow - sure you want to sell that 35mm asph? You'd have to pry mine from my > cold dead hands first.. > A friend loaned me Noctilux for a year - fun and interesting but > I was fine > with returning it after the year. > > Eric - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html