Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My wife and I just returned from a wonderful vacation in Italy. My recently acquired Leica M2, its four lenses and MR meter, together with my Rollei 3.5T, accompanied me. It's probably considered blasphemous by LUGers but I opted for Fujichrome 200 for the Leica, since my wife prefers prints. In my Rollei I used Agfa 100 black & white, which I will develop and print myself. The M2 (967 702 born in July ‘59) performed flawlessly, as did the Rollei, also born around that time. My M2 came with the quick loading kit but I removed that since, believe it or not, I find it easier to load my M2 the traditional way. The MR meter worked just fine under a great range of lighting conditions. I found myself using my 50 mm f2 D.R. Summicron a great deal as I did my 35 mm f 3.5 screw mount Summaron adapted to the M2. It would have been nice to have an f2 and in time I hope to find a 35 mm Summicron without “eyes.” The 90 mm f4 Elmar saw some use but the 135 mm Hektor remained in the bag all the time. Just didn’t find use for it. Kurt Ann Arbor