Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/03/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] I like small lenses
From: Michael Volow <mvolo@duke.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 06:20:47 -0500 (EST)

It looks like I already have your dream. My chrome 35mm Summicron (first
version) only protrudes about 1 inch and the shade about 3/4 inch. I love
this lens, even if is less sharp wide open than its newer cousins. 

 On 
Wed, 17 Mar 1999, ray tai wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:26:01 +0800
> From: ray tai <razerx@netvigator.com>
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] I like small lenses
> 
> I bought my previous version 35mm Summicron two weeks ago and it is now
> my most used lens because it is so small I take it everywhere.  Chrome
> lens, black hood, black M4-2, hand grip, in my brief case and goes where
> ever I go.  I am sure the ASPH Summicron is sharper but I am sure the
> smaller one is good enough for my purposes.  The compactness and
> unobstrusiveness of Leicas is the main reason I use Leicas in the first
> place.
> 
> Here is my dream lens: a recomputed 35/3.5 Elmar or better yet something
> like the Schneider 35/2.8 Xenogon but with modern glass in M mount.
> This lens should protrude less than an inch out of the M body and
> perhaps another .75 inch with the metal screw on hood.  That would be
> nice!
> 
> 
> 
> 

Michael Volow (mvolo@acpub.duke.edu)
Durham, NC