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[pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig)]

Cedric,

On 20/02/2013 20:52, Cedric Agie wrote:
> I'm certainly not an expert of older Leitz lenses, in short I'm not
>...


> 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.

So...what are the numbers? I am fascinated and haven't heard this story 
before.

Peter


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