Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/13

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Subject: [Leica] Any opinions on the best 35mm LTM?
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Fri Apr 13 18:45:23 2007
References: <C2446B36.52A28%mark@rabinergroup.com> <000b01c77e20$a00369e0$f9f96b44@GATEWAY>

At 07:08 PM 4/13/2007, Jeffery Smith wrote:
 >I do have a 35/2.8 LTM Summaron, but I hate to take it out into rough areas
 >of town (that would be everywhere within a 60 mile radius of my house). It
 >is a wonderful lens. Oddly, Puts seems lukewarm on it. I've gotta stop
 >reading reviews and just look at people's images taken with different
 >lenses.

Good heavens!  Jeffery, if you're going to take 
the lens into Areas of Threat, then spend $50 and 
get a 2.8/35 Jupiter-12.  It is a bit slow but 
was the standard against which Canon and Nikon 
fought to equal until Bertele trumped them with his Postwar design.

The Nikon lenses have been out of production 
since 1960, though NOS remained available until 
1977.  The Canon lenses left production around 
1970 though NOS lenses remained for sale into the 
early 1980's.  The Soviet Jupiter-12 was in 
production from 1951 until at least after the 
fall of the Soviet Union and was made in 
quantities much greater than the combined Nikon 
and Canon runs.  The lens is optically superb (it 
is at least the equal of the faster Nikon and 
Canon lenses, if not their superior) while being most inexpensive.

For that matter, given your venturing outside the 
Louisiana Green Zone, why not pick up a Zorki 4 
or FED 5B to reduce your risk to a total of $85 or so, if that?

Marc


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