Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/23

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Subject: [Leica] 3.5/35 Summaron-M
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 11:12:40 -0400

At 12:59 PM 1998-10-23 +0100, Jem Kime wrote:
>The intrigue lies with the Summaron, it keys in the 50mm frame so you'd
>think it was for the M3, but there are no goggles on it, nor any marks where
>they could have been attached, the whole lens looks original, the frame
>finder keying lug has not been re-worked at all.


Yes, there were rather early 3.5/35 Summaron lenses manufactured for the M3
without goggles.  These brought up the 50mm frame line, as does yours!

These guys are a bit on the rare side, though I haven't any production
statistics at hand.

Marc

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