Want to Buy FOUND ONE - WTB Leitz Summaron 3.5cm f/3.5 LTM

[willijt]

Update:
Hello again and thank you for reading my ad and for the replies. I was able to locate one and finalized the purchase last evening. Thanks again. Cheers. Jim

Hello,

Wondering if anyone has a 35mm f3.5 LTM Summaron with good glass that they might like to sell. Planning to use it on a IIIc mostly for b&w. Haze isn’t a show-stopper. Thank you for looking.

Jim

 

[Kodachromeguy]

I had the M version of this lens for many years, and got some remarkably good pictures with it. I bought it in Buenos Aires well-used. An inner element had been attacked by fungus. When the technician cleaned the fungus, he had to remove the coating from that surface. But that barely ever made any difference except when bright lights were shining directly into the lens. As usual, I should have never sold it....

 

[guangong]

If you have an M camera, get lens adapter. My friend gave one to my daughter for use with her M3.

 

[David Reynolds]

I have a M version for sale with goggles. A lens adapter may be the way to go. If interested let me know

 

[willijt]

I have a M version for sale with goggles. A lens adapter may be the way to go. If interested let me know

Gentlemen,

Thanks for jumping in here and giving your ideas and thoughts.

It is my impression that you can mount an LTM on the M Series with an adapter, but I don’t believe the reverse is doable. Perhaps the flange distance is at play here...?

In addition, I am thinking that a thread mount Summaron will be easier on my wallet than an M-mount Summaron.

 

[David Reynolds]

Jim
You are probably right. As a Leica user M3 M4 & M5 I am not up to speed with LTM adaptions. So thanks for the info. I am still learning after 45 years in the business.
David

 

[Kodachromeguy]

Will, you are correct. If you want a 35mm focal length lens for your Leica thread mount body, it must be a 39mmx26tpi thread mount lens. You cannot mount an M lens and achieve infinity focus or even actuate the rangefinder roller. But the reverse will work: you can use LTM lenses in a M body with an adapter. If I can make a suggestion: check the Canon 35mm LTM lenses. They are excellent optically.

 

[guangong]

With Canon ltm lenses, my experience has been that time has been even less kind than with Leitz lenses of same age. I have a nice Canon 28mm and ( after several tries) a nice 100mm. Interestingly, I have never run into a Nikon or Zeiss lens of same vintagenwith haze or fungus. Could be that my sample is too small, but that’s my experience.

 

[btaylor]

Canon 35mm f2 ltm. It’s a great lens, at least my example is. I have had excellent luck with the Canon ltm lenses, like guangong though my sample has been small (four).