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Originally Posted by jaapv
 Either you use the goggles and the 50 mm framelines are the correct ones for the lens, or you remove the goggles and the focussing will be off at all distances except infinity. The lens will lock at infinity without the goggles for this very reason.
In other words: you destroyed the functionality of the lens by filing off the frameline lug....Reduced the value to zero too.
Btw, the goggles for the m3 version do not go into the accesory shoe; they fit on the lens. |
Jaap, this isn't completely exact... Summaron 35 3,5 had a complex story...
a) The VERY FRIST version of 1954 (the 1.179.xxx quoted by Erik, so as my depicted 1.180.xxx) where indeed for M3, but intended for use with the SBLOO shoe VF; these items bring up the 50mm frame on M8, M3-2-4 (and I think MP too)
b) Then (1956) the goggled version appeared (I have a 1.555.xxx); in the first version of this, goggles where removable : brings up 50mm frame on M3-2-4 etc...
c) Then again (1958 - M2 introduction) a version for M2 appeared: no goggles, brings up the 35mm frame on M2-M4... M8 too (and I haven't it...
maybe someday, when haven't more to think of equipping my M8...)
Agree that filing the bayonet lug is a pity... better to set manually the frame when one likes to use this pleasant oldstyle lens
