350D_user
B+W film devotee
A Leica IIIa body, or an L39 lens?
A 5cm Summar (front marked), or a 5cm Summitar (optics cloudy on half of inside surface (??))
A 3.5cm uncoated (pre-war) Elmar, or a 3.5cm "heavy cam" Elmar with no serial?
The body will give the ability for me to use HP5, as well as no longer having to guess distances. The 5cm lenses will give me different results to the I22 I already have. The 3.5cms offer the wider-angle photos I tend to go for with the DSLR.
What's different about the "heavy cam" 3.5cm Elmar?
A 5cm Summar (front marked), or a 5cm Summitar (optics cloudy on half of inside surface (??))
A 3.5cm uncoated (pre-war) Elmar, or a 3.5cm "heavy cam" Elmar with no serial?
The body will give the ability for me to use HP5, as well as no longer having to guess distances. The 5cm lenses will give me different results to the I22 I already have. The 3.5cms offer the wider-angle photos I tend to go for with the DSLR.
What's different about the "heavy cam" 3.5cm Elmar?
Peter_Jones
Well-known
If you can get the hazy summitar for a super-low price, and have a word with a friendly optician, you may end up with a great lens, if it can't be cleaned, it's spare parts to make hybrid lenses with 