foto_fool
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Nick - looking forward to some pictures with the Summar. If FedEx is good to me today I may have some shots to post from the Summar on a IIIf - at $325 (2 seperate eBay deals) not as inexpensive as your rig, but still pretty cheap in the grand scheme. With the Summar starting to get all this love the prices are going to go up. Thanks Raid for giving me the bug to get one some time back.
Keith - In my experience the Summar is softer and more prone to flare than the Summarit. For me the knock on the Summarit is its size - it completely overbalances the IIIf, which handles perfectly with the Summar, and OK with the Nikkor SC or collapsible Summicron. I'm probably selling the LTM Summarit.
My most recent inexpensive kit is a Konica III - hoping to see the first pics from it today as well. It is built like a tank and sports a 48mm/f2 Hexanon in a leaf shutter so quiet sometimes I'm not sure it fired.
- John
Keith - In my experience the Summar is softer and more prone to flare than the Summarit. For me the knock on the Summarit is its size - it completely overbalances the IIIf, which handles perfectly with the Summar, and OK with the Nikkor SC or collapsible Summicron. I'm probably selling the LTM Summarit.
My most recent inexpensive kit is a Konica III - hoping to see the first pics from it today as well. It is built like a tank and sports a 48mm/f2 Hexanon in a leaf shutter so quiet sometimes I'm not sure it fired.
- John