Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>The "spherical" 35 Summicron is a good deal shorter and a tad lighter than >it's aspherical sister. I also recommend buying either lens in its black, >aluminum barrel expression, which is lighter yet and less costly than the >brass-barreled silver finish. There are a bunch of books and perhaps web >sites (Irwin's?) which give the particulars, but I find that an M6 with the >spherical version mounted slips into my jacket pocket while with the >aspherical mounted it does not. I also use the 12585 vented shade in place >of the square shade supplied with either lens. > > Buzz Hausner out of wild curiosity, does that 12585 hood fit the asph summicron 35? guy