Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/01

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Subject: [Leica] 50mm Summilux or Summicron for M3
From: "Bob Walkden" <bobwalkden@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 17:13:05 BST

Hi,

I'm planning to buy one or other of these, preferably a 50mm chrome Summilux 
post s/n 1844001, for my M3. I've had various comments which claim that the 
optical quality is noticeably inferior even at small print sizes to the 
equivalent Summicrons, and that mechanically they are also poorer because of 
soft aluminium (aluminum) used in the gears and cogs and things, but others 
which claim that the 'luxes are, if anything, better optically than the 
'crons (of course they are at 1.4).

Is there a resource which compares the different 50s in their different 
incarnations, giving the pros and cons of each one?

Thanks,

Bob
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