Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I bet Bob Schwalberg did. I wonder if there are any archives of his work somewhere. I suppose you could go to a library that has some Pop Photos from the '50s. I know he wrote about both lenses in later years. Mike D - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dante A Stella" <dante@umich.edu> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 7:51 PM Subject: [Leica] Old Sonnars vs. Old Summicrons and Summars > > > This is a new, and more benign question. > > Has anyone done any systematic testing of the 1950s 50mm Sonnars (Opton) > versus that 50/2 Summicrons from the same period? Is there any MTF data > available from that period? I know the modern lenses blow both of those > out of the water, but I would be very interested in seeing how they > matched up against each other and how they would both compare to modern > lenses. > > I do know the optical signatures by now, having done a lot of > experimentation with them. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dante Stella > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~dante > >