4/2/2024 0 Comments Leitz leica 50mm summicron f2![]() ![]() The same capabilities as the rigid Summicron, the dual range was packaged with a little ocular attachment, sometimes called goggles, that would fit on the front of the lens that allowed you to see in the rangefinder this close focusing scale. Then, they realized they could do better, and they created the 50 Summicron with close focusing capabilities called the 50 dual range Summicron. This is a pristine example of the rigid Summicron. Like the collapsable lens, it has an infinity lock that has to be pressed down in order to bring the lens to focus from infinity, locks at infinity, and then you can focus down to about one meter with this lens. Then, Leica created the rigid Summicron, and the rigid Summicron didn't collapse like its earlier cousin. This is where we started with the collapsible 50 millimeter lens. This style of 50 Summicron was made in both screw mount & M bayonet mount. It happens to be a screw mount lens with an adapter on it. ![]() This is a 50-millimeter Summicron lens, collapsible. Leica used lenses that collapsed as well. These collapsible lenses were fabulously compact When the Leica M3 was introduced See what we started out with when the M cameras were introduced. We have here a couple of examples: One for a screw mount camera for point of illustration. Dan Tamarkin here from Tamarkin Camera in downtown Chicago to talk a little bit about early 50-millimeter lenses from Lecia for the Leica M system. ![]()
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