Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/03

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Subject: [Leica] [WTB] Summicron 35mm f/2 3rd or 4th version
From: john.o.newell at comcast.net (J. Newell)
Date: Thu Jan 3 09:55:31 2008
 
>  I guess, for me, if 
> one has only $850 to play with, buying new rather than "bargain" is safer 
> in 
> that you don't know what that bargain lens has been through. 

A calculated trade-off?  You do have the chance to road-test the KEH lens 
and return it.  My concern would be that the 35mm Summicrons have become 
quite over-heated in the past year or two (IMO), especially the v4 - the 
bang:buck ratio is not very advantageous (again, IMO).

John Newell