Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/10/19

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Subject: [Leica] Leica announces Summaron-M 28mm f/5.6
From: jshulman at judgecrater.com (Jim Shulman)
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:58:22 -0400
References: <D42D1ED6.6754D%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Suddenly it's 1955.  That was the speed of their "replacement" Summaron
(the one that replaced the f6.3 model!)  Meanwhile, Nikon and Canon were
making 3.5 28s in LTM (with Canon going one better, with a 2.8)  It was a
strangely obsolete max aperture then, and certainly now.

Go figure....
Jim


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