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[muser53]

Summarex
The great thing about being a lens designer is that you get to name the lens. Dr. Max Berek who worked for Leitz from 1912 till his death in 1949 named lenses after his two favorite dogs. One was Summarex named after his dog Rex (the other Hektor named after his dog Hektor).
~fron Thorsten Overgaard's Leica Definitions

 

[xayraa33]

Max Berek was a great lens designer who only lived to be 63 years of age, a bit longer than Leica camera pioneer Oskar Barnack though.

Max Berek looked a bit like Kevin Spacey ( I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing these days 🙂 )

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Talking about animals? From now every time T name is pushed, all I think of is elephants skin giant purses.

 

[John Lawrence]

I'm not a lens designer, but some of the lenses I've used in the past have been real dogs.... 🙂


John

 

[Larry Cloetta]

I wonder if Hektor wasn’t as nice as Rex.

 

[muser53]

Max Berek looked a bit like Kevin Spacey ( I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing these days

)

IMHO it is better to resemble Kevin Spacey (along with his well known warts) than Thorsten

 

[rfaspen]

What does Thorsten and his designer friend have against elephants?