Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After having borrowed a friend's M4P for a while I'm currently looking into buying an M-system myself. The difficulty is with choosing the (first) lens. I'm interested in buying either a new Summicron 50/2.0 or a 2ndhand (excellent condition, latest version) Summilux 50/1.4. Both cost the same, about US$ 850 Could anyone shed a light on differences in optics quality between the two (if at all present), apart from the Summilux obviously being one stop faster? In short: which model should I go for if top quality optics is most important to me? Cheers, Armand