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Subject: [Leica] Leica M3 plus Summilux and Summaron
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:07:56 +0530
References: <738524A1-67DE-45A1-8698-7B88F964AB20@shaw.ca> <995500.66831.qm@web55902.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

Arche,
There is also a f3.5, I have one.
Cheers
Jayanand


On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:01 AM, H. Ball Arche <h_arche at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> This is the F2.8, check the link.
>
>
> --- On Wed, 3/18/09, John Collier <jbcollier at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> From: John Collier <jbcollier at shaw.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M3 plus Summilux and Summaron
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 8:58 PM
>> Please remember that there was an M mount ?35 mm Summaron
>> f3.5. The early version had no goggles, brought up the 50 mm
>> framelines and was meant to be used with the SBLOO finder --
>> though you could just use the entire M3 finder.
>>
>> John
>> On 18-Mar-09, at 6:53 PM, H. Ball Arche wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Since the Summaron is the non-goggle type, take this
>> deal - its a good one. Like I said, you can turn over the M3
>> and get an M2 and be ahead of the game. The M2 summarons
>> usually go for something above US$800, and you said this one
>> is minty.
>> >
>> > --- On Wed, 3/18/09, Leina Gonzalez
>> <gonzalel at online.de> wrote:
>> >
>> >> From: Leina Gonzalez <gonzalel at online.de>
>> >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica M3 plus Summilux and
>> Summaron
>> >> To: lug at leica-users.org
>> >> Date: Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 3:50 PM
>> >> I hope that I have hit the correct reply button.
>> Thanks all
>> >> so much for your responses, re: just wait for the
>> M2,
>> >> excellent point and I've been waiting for many
>> months to
>> >> find a decent body and matching lens, I don't
>> know what
>> >> is going on but it seems that there are only super
>> mint
>> >> bodies or trashed bodies but not much in between.
>> I've
>> >> not only searched the auction site but camera
>> shops,
>> >> classifieds, ect. I'm in Europe, where have
>> they all
>> >> gone??? It isn't that I don't want an M3
>> (no
>> >> complaints here) aside from the lack of a 35mm
>> frame line,
>> >> and potential viewfinder problems; but I did the
>> M2 v. M3
>> >> question for a while and finally decided to try
>> the M2. In
>> >> the meantime I've learned that the Summaron is
>> indeed
>> >> the model that uses no goggles, but how that
>> should work
>> >> with the M3, I don't know. I found this link:
>> >>
>> https://www.leicashop.com/vintage/summaron-2835mm-p-308.html
>> >> it is the lens that I have been offered and the
>> store here
>> >> lists it as for the M3, does anyone have any
>> experience with
>> >> this? Maybe I am missing something here. And
>> Chris, what do
>> >> you mean by "it still pulls up the 50mm frame
>> >> line"? Sorry for the question, still
>> learning...
>> >>
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In reply to: Message from jbcollier at shaw.ca (John Collier) ([Leica] Leica M3 plus Summilux and Summaron)
Message from h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche) ([Leica] Leica M3 plus Summilux and Summaron)