After posting last night that Id keep it, I thought about that... I bought it because the shop I got it from had two ASPH Summicrons, a black one and this one and a Summilux ASPH in Black, and I actually dont like the black ones after having played with a friends chome lenses, I found them to be significanly more smooth especially the aperture ring after a period of time. They feel warm in my hand and are considerably heavier. All that aside, I had no intention of ever actually buying a Leica, and then I found myself with one, and then I got a little light headed and wanted to have a 35mm lens, a Leica one. This opportunity came up and I grabbed it and 'invested' in a Summicron because I knew it wouldnt lose its value and I would be able to use it to catapult me into a Summilux later on as Id just end up spending that money on something frivolous.
Which brings me to the point now where I have this possible rarity and it could actually be something I could possibly swap with someone who had a Summilux chrome, which would allow me to get a Leicavit, which would complete my manual setup.
I have a plan to have a chrome completely manual setup just for shooting black and white whilst travelling and an M7 (prolly a black one) with the Motor-M and a lens for it, havent quite decided on the lens combination, as I have a 15mm Chrome Voigtlander which is jsut an awesome lens, this 35mm (or another one later on) and Im deciding whether to go north and get a 50 Summilux or say just south of the border and get a 24 or 21 for use on the other body. All in Ive been a digital photographer for fifteen years and it was fun until I was in a place where I had no power and no computers etc, and I coudnt shoot and I couldnt see my images. And what I had was destroyed, 10,000 images. So I just dont trust digital anymore. No matter how good it gets, you still have to plug it in to make it work, and some of us know that there are times and places in the world where that isnt available.
Sorry, thats completely off track...
