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Subject: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M...
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 01:47:16 -0400

My 35mm 3.5 also has f stops which move when you focus.
Its a Summaron.
I'm sure many here know what I'm talking about.
Takes some getting used to. But its gorgeous and functional.
You just gotto go looking to find your f stops lots of times.


http://www.vintageclassiccamera.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4
&products_id=1069&zenid=48bm84v2jlqo5s91bs4lnel2f1
Or
http://tinyurl.com/2uny5u3

--------------------
Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:40:20 -0500
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M...
> 
> Mark,
> 
> The language is probably a translation, but I get the idea that it is just
> like the collapsable 50mm 3.5 Elmar.  The whole lens turns when focusing, 
> so
> the aperture scale rotates also.  This does NOT mean that the f-stop
> changes.  The scale just rolls around with the lens.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M...
> 
> 
>> My kind of lens exactly.
>> But why would the f stops move when you focas?
>> 
>> --------------------
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> mark at rabinergroup.com
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Richard Man <richard at imagecraft.com>
>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:33:28 -0700
>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>>> Subject: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M...
>>> 
>>> ... and no lugger cares? :-)
>>> 
>>> http://www.japanexposures.com/2010/09/06/ms-optical-super-triplet-perar/
>>> 
>>> Only 180 will be produced. Apparently, Miyazaki san designs and makes the
>>> lens himself. Since the beans were spilled on RFF a couple weeks ago,
>>> boatload of Leicaphiles went to order the lens and now it is in
>>> backorder.
>>> 
>>> I probably won't get one myself. At one point, I owned 3, count them, 3,
>>> 50mm M lens but I always went for the same one. That's when I realized
>>> that
>>> there is no point for me to own more than one lens of a particular focal
>>> length (*).
>>> 
>>> // richard "ain't no Jeff Smith" man
>>> 
>>> (*) with the exception of the Nokton 50/1.1 and the 'lux.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/>
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>>> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com>
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>>> previous
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