Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/02

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Subject: Re: Any ideas?
From: Donal Philby <donalphilby@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 17:07:55 -0800

John McLeod wrote:
> 
> Curt -
> 
> I have a mint, black 50 Summicron M ----- it's the
> sharpest lens I have ever owned, along with my old 85/1.8 Nikkor.
> 
> John McLeod
> 
John--I used to own one of those 85/1/8s.  Absolutely stunning 
sharpness.  Have done 16x20 prints from FP4 that rivals sharpness of my 
6x7.  And one day it disappeared out of the studio.  The 105 Macro I 
replaced it with doesn't even come close.

Donal Philby
San Diego