For Sale Superb User Lens - Leica Summitar $ 299 !

If you know Summitar lenses, you never they are FREQUENTLY found with haze, fogging, scratches and are generally in poor shape. This example, with the earlier, rounded aperture blades for smooth bokeh, is in very nice user condition. Glass is FREE from scratches and is 97 % clear. Its not perfect glass, with a few darks specks between elements and under a flash light torture test, I can see a very small spot of extremely faint haze, but this is not worth discussing since you can barely see it and otherwise the glass is abnormally CLEAN !! With normal light you cant see it. Or, with a $ 40 CLA from Youxin Ye, I bet he could clean it away....

Barrel has modest wear. In Meters. Although this lens by manufacture date should be uncoated, I can see a reflection of purple in the lens. Built in 1940. $ 299 plus $ 6 shipping in US

See here for a huge article on Summitar lenses including tests !

http://slrlensreview.com/web/leica-s...mm-f2-ltm.html


Ken Rockwell writes of the Summitar;

The LEICA SUMMITAR 50mm f/2 is an extremely sharp lens in the center, and softer on the sides compared to LEICA's newest lenses. In most cases, no one will notice any difference. This LEICA SUMMITAR 50mm f/2 was Leica's highest-performance normal lens from 1939 until it was replaced by the SUMMICRON in 1953.

This SUMMITAR uses much larger front optical components than the SUMMAR for greatly reduced mechanical vignetting for less light falloff. LEICA pitched this as especially important for the new color work for which this SUMMITAR was particularly well suited."

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Awesome lens, love mine.

Here's a shot using mine with Kodak Gold 200 film.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/38698047@N00/70776647

Sold. Thank you !