The 40/2 Summicron is a very, very nice lens. The real sleeper is the 40/2
Rokkor, which is the identical lens to the Summicron, re-badged as a Rokkor.
It sells for substantially less than the Wetzlar-badged version. I'd bet that
you could find the Rokkor for $200.
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>Subject: [OM] Re: 40mm pancake - collector or shooter?
> From: Jim Brokaw <jbrokaw@xxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:18:45 -0700
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>on 4/29/04 2:23 PM, Thomas Heide Clausen at T.Clausen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>> I'm not enough of a photographer to profit from the insane prices of the
>> Leica glass anyways. My zuikos are capable of making much better pictures
>> than what I will be able to use them to take ever, so any comparison with
>> Leica or any other brand of glass is mostly moot for me.
>>
>> --thomas
>
>Actually, I think I might like the 40mm focal length on a Leica, in the
>future I suppose I'll be looking for either a 35/2.0 Summicron or the 40/2.0
>that went on the Leica CL. I could use it with a 35mm frame and just compose
>it a little tighter... But right now my funding won't support -any- lens
>acquisitions.
>--
>
>Jim Brokaw
>OM-'s of all sorts, and no OM-oney...
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