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Subject: [Leica] FS: Summicron 28
From: rclark01 at comcast.net (rclark01@comcast.net)
Date: Sat Jul 7 14:54:42 2007

And I sold it, too!  Too bad I did!
-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Jim Shulman" <jshul@comcast.net> 

> A few years ago the Viewfinder magazine ran a comparison of the Summicron 
> 28 
> and the CV 28/1.9. They found (in conventional large prints) that there 
> was 
> no discernable difference from f 2.8 and smaller; at maximum aperture the 
> Summicron was marginally (though this was disputed) sharper at the edges. 
> 
> So, for Arche's purposes, the CV is probably just dandy. Mine was a 
> terrific lens; I only sold it because I rarely used that focal length. 
> 
> Jim Shulman 
> Bryn Mawr, PA 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org 
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jshul=comcast.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of 
> slobodan 
> dimitrov 
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 9:54 PM 
> To: Leica Users Group 
> Subject: Re: [Leica] FS: Summicron 28 
> 
> Oh! 
> I forgot that people did that nowadays. 
> I guess even a coke bottle can produce enough resolution for much of 
> the scanning done these days. 
> 
> s.d. 
> 
> 
> 
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