Good going DSK!
I just acquired a wartime Summitar (for kinda free) this weekend 😉
I turned the 1946 IIIC body for the same price I paid for it with the lens.....
(posted it online today for some other photograoher friends at my portfolio site and it was SOLD in less than 3 hours! - very kool 🙂
I made someone happy too this weekend)
I really didn`t need another SM body right now at the moment, but I did want to find a decent Summitar of the right era to work with it`s a 1943 it has been factory coated, it`s clean with no wipe marks or fogging, but it does have a few minute specks in it, but when you shine a fashlight through it, it`s bright and clear, I`m curious to see it`s performance
There`s only one problem and that`s the aperture ring feels like it`s stuck in the mud...... 🙁
So I`m going to leave it at f2.0 f2.2 and shoot away in a "wide open" lens test and post the results as soon as I have one of my pinup`s free to shoot some portraits 🙂
Tom