Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/07
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Ed--
1)The Summilux 50mm f/1.4 you bought isn't the same as the Summicron f/2
commemorative that has been introduced.
2)The Summicron commemorative is not a replacement for the current Summicron
50mm f/2, but a special version.
3)The Summilux 50mm f/1.4 has not been changed.
4) The white boxes are the so-called "old" package design, but we get white
and silver boxes all the time. Leica is just making a design change for
packaging (in many cases this is for the better, as the foam packing is much
heftier) from the white to the silver/black.
FYI--
Noctilux = f/1.0
Summilux = f/1.4
Summicron = f/2.0
Elmar and Elmarit can vary in terms of how they refer to f/stop
designations.
Kit
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- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
[mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Edward
Caliguri
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 10:55 AM
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
Subject: [Leica] Leica "old Style" 50 1.4 Summilux??
Hi!
I happened to purchase one of the LAST old style 50 1.4 Summilux Lenses
(43mm filter, metal vented hood - close focus (only :-) ) 1.0 meter. It's
one of the last, white box and all, - a week later the new one came out.
Is this lens worth any more now? Is it different (optics wise?) than the
newer version?
Thanks!
Ed
> So what is different about this lens?
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>
>
> It's 1950 all over again:
>
> Leica has announced that they will once again product 1000 units of the
> 50mmf2.0 rigid with modern Summicron optics. This lens will be to
> commemorate
> 50 years of the 50 Summicron. More interesting to me is that the photos of
> this lens look like a dead-on match for those old favorites.
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