Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:43 PM 1/13/97 -0800, Mark Bergman wrote: >Charles E. Love, Jr. wrote: >> >> Lots of people on this list love the DR Summicron 50. It's nice to have the close focusing, > >The newer 50's focus just as close on any M4 or newer body. theDR was >for closer focusing with the M3 (don't know about the M2) No. The current 50mm lens only focuses to either 75cm or 1m, I forget which. The DR, with eyes affixed, focuses to less than 50cm. This is on ANY M body. There's another entire issue, and that deals with the second-generation Summicron, which had a different close-focus distance for M2/3 and M4. Different thing entirely. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!