Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/01

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Subject: [Leica] Why the sumarit-M lens?
From: leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig)
Date: Sat Sep 1 01:23:04 2007
References: <20070830090840.A31E02FBB2@donald.hostspirit.ch> <C2FE3960.67A89%mark@rabinergroup.com>

> No now If you want to get a lens with less the the very best glass and
> technology you now don't have to go to strangers.
> With a Summicron, current you'd get the finist Leica has to offer.
> Expensive glasses. High tech lens grinding of any shape it takes to get
> the job done so you can shoot wide open with no compunctions. Floating
> elements you name it.
> With a Summarit you get cut rate glass and all the elements are ground
> spherically. You get lens designs which had reached its limits decades
> ago.

Mark
If the look of the pictures is then "like decades ago" I'll immediately
buy it! Because I don't like the "contemporary look" produced by the Nikon
D50 kit lens!
;-D
Didier




In reply to: Message from leica at screengang.com (Didier Ludwig) ([Leica] Why the sumarit-M lens?)
Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] Why the sumarit-M lens?)