My new M2 and 35 Summaron

[luigi bertolotti]

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These are both made with the above Tele Elmarit 90, no wide open (probably 5,6); remember there is a Tele Elmarit 90 that is even lighter (225g): is the last version in black : lighter, but I think less robust, and some of them suffer a strange problem in the back lens.

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[christoph_d]

Luigi,

 

Thanks,

 

C.

[Xmas]

Hi bshubins,

 

take a look at this related thread..

http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-collectors-historica/45351-summaron-m-35mm-f-3-5-a-3.html

 

The 35 f3.5 with detachable goggles cannot be used without them, see item 44 in the above link.

 

The modification to these earlier 35s (with and without detachable goggles, M3 only) is to file a tiny section of one bayonet, to bring up the 35mm frame-lines on M2 and later bodies.

 

Regards,

John

 

Before the person who queried, nail files his lens, can you confirm this is accurate, logic says the goggled lenses don't need filing, but need googles.

 

Noel

[earleygallery]

Correct, the goggled lenses will bring up the 50mm framelines on any M, and the goggles convert the field of view to 35mm so DON'T file anything!!!!!

 

You can't use a goggled lens without goggles as the focussing cam is set differently to the non goggled lenses.

[Xmas]

Hi James

 

Thanks, this is a real panog thread I've never seen some of this stuff before, gotta go and stroke my beaten up M3 now.

 

Noel

[FiZZ]

 

My baby. Apparently its the first version 35 'cron. Still haven't developed the film from it.

[Guest JoanMarianne]

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There is something very intriguing about lenses from the Fifties, and earlier. When you use them you are recording the world in the way the first owners would have recorded it. not exactly looking into the past, as with the binoculars in the M R James ghost story "A View from a Hill", since time moves on; but at least part of the effect is there. Very romantic, I think......

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There is something very intriguing about lenses from the Fifties, and earlier. When you use them you are recording the world in the way the first owners would have recorded it. not exactly looking into the past, as with the binoculars in the M R James ghost story "A View from a Hill", since time moves on; but at least part of the effect is there. Very romantic, I think......

 

Interesting thought Joan. I hadn't thought about it in the light of James' story but now you come to mention it.... Lets hope Leica didn't use the same ingredients in their lenses then!