Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/26

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Summarit 50/1.5
From: Ken Wilcox <klw.51@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 11:05:26 -0400
References: <20020426140008.56944.qmail@web10501.mail.yahoo.com>

The other obvious alternative is the recently continued modern LTM 
Summilux. I think  there are still a few dealer who have new ones.

Ken Wilcox

At 7:00 AM -0700 4/26/02, Javier Perez wrote:
>Howdy
>It's a very old design. I think it was based on a
>prewar Schneider Xenon. The only other option in the
>Leitz camp if you have a screw mount camera would be a
>screw mount Summilux if you can find one and are
>willing the ridiculous price. The summarit isn't a bad
>lens but it's prone to flare and gets blown away by
>both the Summilux and the old Zeiss Sonnar. One
>alternative might be the
>Nokton from Voigtlander
>
>http://www.cosina.com/nokton50.htm
>
>See Ya
>Javier
>
>--- Mark Kronquist <mak@teleport.com> wrote:
>>  on 4/25/02 5:12 AM, David C. Mason at dcm@pobox.com
>>  wrote:
>>
>>  >
>>  > What can people tell me about the Summarit-M
>>  50/1.5 - I have a chance
>>  > to get one cheap but I really don't know much
>>  about this lens.
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Cheers,
>>  >
>>  > Dave
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>>  cheap and nasty. Unloved and from my experience
>>  rightly so. But others might
>>  have a different view. Buy a CV Nokton thanks  Mark
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Replies: Reply from Marc James Small <msmall@infi.net> (Re: [Leica] Re: Summarit 50/1.5)
In reply to: Message from Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com> (Re: [Leica] Summarit 50/1.5)