Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/01/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The obsolete 50/2 rigid Summicron (1960 - 68) with all its alledged aberrations was and is considered to be the Standard of Excellence from which all other similar lenses are judged (see Irwin Puts' Web Site). There are lenses made today with many improvements that will show up on an optical bench or test chart but there many of us that are interested in a pleasing picture and not just one where you can count all the pimples on a persons nose. All these so called APO, asspherical, rare earth glass etc. improvements are just due to advanced technology of the day and mainly serve as a way to sell the latest equipment to the person that must have the latest of every- thing. Back in the highly competitive days of Hi-Fidelity Sound, you could spend X dollars for a system that was 98.5% distortion free & then spend another $100 or so for each 1/10% improvement which was mostly inaudible. Mary Grace ======================================================== << From: budcook@ibm.net (Bud Cook) Sender: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Reply-to: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Alf, Thank you for defining something I've not been able to do adequately. I have a 50mm Rigid Summicron as well as many later Leitz (and other) lenses. There is something fascinating about Kodachrome transparencies taken with this lens and the 8 element 35mm Summicron that I've never been able to describe. I can go back over decades of slides and pick out those taken with this magical lens. If I were limited to one camera and one lens it would be my M3 w/50mm Rigid Summicron. Bud Cook -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Breull <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] 50 mm M lens comparisons (long) >>