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Katie Pype, on Flickr
This is the first brand new lens I've ever bought, and I am super excited. I bought mine from Wen at SH Cameras, finding out much too late (only about 4 months ago). I thought I would post, as my lens is different than the first 500 batch. I have an even aperture scale, and half stop clicks in between. The aperture blades retain a circular shape throughout the stops as far as I can tell. My lens is still the 'V2LC' with amber coating and flint glass. Still feels like my old Leica and Nikkor glass; solid as a brick yet so joyful to use. Below is a picture showing the aperture scale better:
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Katie Pype, on Flickr
However, according to Wen, the way the lens renders has been tweaked slightly. He tells me that the lens now renders greater shadow details and slightly less sharpness to emulate the original Summicron better. I've got only a handful of pictures left on my first roll of Tri-X to shoot, I'm very curious to see how my images turn out compared to the samples I've seen on this forum. If it shoots anything like the original or if it reminds me of my collapsible 50mm Cron I absolutely adore, I will be thrilled. I should finish up the roll this week and have time during the weekend developing the roll. I'll post some results for comparison!