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Subject: Vs: [Leica] 50mm lens
From: "Raimo Korhonen" <raimo.korhonen@pp2.inet.fi>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 18:21:44 +0200

What do you mean - not an M - a screw mount, perhaps? My Summicron of the same configuration definitely says Summicron-M - and I do think that all lenses with M bayonet mount are M lenses. I have never heard that there is a separate M series of lenses.
All the best!
Raimo
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Aihe: Re: [Leica] 50mm lens


>In a message dated 8/6/00 5:14:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>belinkoff@earthlink.net writes:
>
<snip>
>According to Sartorius, the Summicron-M was intro'd in 1994, with built-in 
>hood and same glass as its immediate predecessor with separate hood, from 
>1979, which began with SN c.2,967,000.  I have this model, and it's a very 
>potent performer.  According to the Leica Pocket Book, the serial number 
>indicates manufacture in about 1989, I would guess.   The latest year they 
>show is 1987, which ended at 3455870.  Code numbers are 11819 for black and 
>11825 in chrome.  Technically, the lens is evidently not a Summicron-M but a 
>Summicron, and you might suggest to the seller that it should fetch a lower 
>price, if it has been advertised as the M model.
>
>Joe Sobel