Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/15

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Subject: [Leica] Do I want a 35 'lux?
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Mon May 15 15:32:52 2006
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At 06:15 PM 5/15/06 -0400, Don Dory wrote:

>You want either the ASPH Summicron or Summilux or the new Zeiss offering.
>The earlier 35 Summilux was just plain soft at 1.4 plus flared like crazy
>wide open.  

Don

You've stated this a number of times.  I've owned three of these lenses and
have shot with four of them, and only one had flare problems.  I suspect
that you might want to try a few more examples.  SOME did suffer from flare
but, in my own experience, most did not do so.

Marc

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