Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/19

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Subject: [Leica] Quality of the 5cm f1.5 Summarit (and the earlier Xenon)
From: "Doug Richardson" <doug@meditor.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 19:00:47 -0000
 
I've been interested to see the generally favourable comments which
users have made concerning the 5cm f1.5 Summarit. I'd always assumed
it was simply a coated version of the Xenon, a lens I once owned in
(third-party?) coated form and found to be horribly soft at full
aperture. Perhaps I just had a bad or poorly-reassembled example. A
recent article in the "Viewfinder" compared a single example of the
uncoated Xenon and the a contemporary uncoated 5cm f1.5 Sonnar, and
reported a generally similar level of performance from both. I've been
looking for an LTM f1.5 Sonnar - perhaps I should be thinking of the
Summarit instead.

Regards,

Doug Richardson