Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/14
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> Well, I'm NOT going to make any extravagant claims for either: I've owned a
> late-model Summicron and didn't like it. I currently own both a collapsible
> Summicron and an NF, and the latter is my standard lens. The reversible
> lens hood is easy to use, by the way, though a pull-out hood is obviously
>[...]
Marc,
as I don't have a book on Leica-History and don't know exactly what
versions there have been untill today this leaves me a little bit
puzzeled.
I had a look into such a book and did read the 50mm Summicron-
chapter but I can't get it to fit with your explanations
(I don't remember everything in the book though).
Do you by "late-model" that you didn't like refer to the recent
summicron with integrated hood or to the
"through-eighties-and-early-nineties" model?
What about the black "seventies" model? I think this was the
predecessor of the chrome-only first-version Summicron
and must be the second version you mention?
Or was there only a change in the barrel between 70' and 80'
and both are second generation optically?
Which one do you call NF (no explanations about the DR needed).
I have a "early-eighties" and a "mid-seventies" model at hand
and cannot rent them! I moreover tend to the 80' model though...
Thank you!
Stefan
PS. I will be away from my computer for a week.
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Stefan Kahlert,
Medizinische Poliklnik der Universitaet Bonn
uzs13b@uni-bonn.de