Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/02/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm certainly not an expert of older Leitz lenses, in short I'm not really fond of Leica lenses made before the discovery by Leitz of new elements (i.e. high refraction obtained with Lanthan etc) and multicoating. As we all know you cannot judge a lens from a Computer screen or a television set, but looking at the brillant colors, contrasts and sharpness etc in these excellent pictures, I would rather have the impression that they where taken with a Summicron lens. Wich could be the case as I mentionned before. At the end of the Summitar 50 mm production Leitz produced a small number of these new lenses under the name Summitar, but in fact these where issued with the new Summicron formulas to test the market. Only the serial number could give an indication. They used the same trick with the first Summilux 50mm 1.4 lenses that arrived under the the name of the former Summarit 50mm f1.5. My advise; never sell such a lens. Cedric 2013/2/20 Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>: > I checked the CameraQuest site. That is a lot of money to invest in gear > with limited usefulness! Might be fun, though. > > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > ----- Original Message ----- From: "RicCarter" <ric at cartersxrd.net> > > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 1:53 PM > > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Film Images from Leica IIIf > > >> you can get back some of the old fun by strapping one of the CV ultrawides >> and accessory finders on the the III >> >> the 12 is great fun on it >> >> ric >> >> >> >> >> On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:40 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >> wrote: >> >>> The main reason I gave up on the IIIf was that my eyes and glasses just >>> don't perform like they did when I was younger. The small RF/VF windows >>> are >>> a pain for me. >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information