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Subject: [Leica] FS: 90mm Apo Aspheric Summicron-M 6-bit with Box, Case, Caps
From: john.o.newell at comcast.net (J. Newell)
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 01:17:41 +0000 (UTC)




Leica 90mm Summicron-M Apo Aspheric lens for digital and film Leica 
rangefinders. Includes original box, leather case, Leica caps. Lens flange 
was machined for Leica 6-bit coding by John Milch. $3800 with free shipping 
to the lower 48 states. 

The optics are clean with no scratches, cleaning marks, haze, fungus, 
coating issues or other blemishes or damage. The lens has very minor 
internal dust. 

Mechanically, the lens is perfect, with smooth focusing action and crisp, 
firm aperture detents. The aperture blades are clean and dry and do not show 
any bright marks from use. The lens hood extends and collapses correctly. 
This lens was CLA'd by DAG several years ago to cure what Don called 
"sticktion" (sticky friction) in the focusing helix, which made accurate 
focusing difficult. The focus is smooth and perfectly dampened now. The lens 
flange was machined for Leica 6-bit coding by John Milch and accurately 
sends lens information to my M8. 

The cosmetics are very nice but not perfect. There are bright marks showing 
on the edges of the aperture ring and one or two small bright marks on the 
focusing ring. The pictures below show some dust (externally), so look at 
the pics carefully with that in mind - the pinpoint bright spots are all or 
nearly all dust (I think you will be able to tell which are which). 

If you are willing to use a lens that is less than 100% mint, this lens will 
not embarrass you in any setting other than a gathering of collectors who 
don't use their equipment. The reason that I am selling this lens is that 
I'm not going to upgrade to an M9 and the effective 120mm focal length on my 
M8 is too long for most of my uses. If interested or if you have questions, 
please contact me off-list at newellj at gmail dot com. 

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg152/newellj/90APO/P1000530-1.jpg 

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg152/newellj/90APO/P1000531-2.jpg 

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg152/newellj/90APO/P1000532-3.jpg 

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg152/newellj/90APO/P1000533-4.jpg 

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg152/newellj/90APO/P1000534-5.jpg 

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg152/newellj/90APO/P1000535-6.jpg 
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg152/newellj/90APO/P1000536-7.jpg 

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg152/newellj/90APO/P1000537-8.jpg 


Thanks 

John Newell 






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