chris_ross_leong

<p>I've just had my Summarit recoated - actually the groups had to be teased apart first, so rebuilt would be more like it - and it's a wonderful piece of glass, now that the thing is spotless and has been optimized with modern gear to current standards.<br> Wide open it's an instant "antique" Xenon-type large format look, especially in black-and-white and just a stop and a half down it's back to the regular signature Leica 35mm look.<br> I use it for fashion and beauty portraiture and street / lifestyle shots on an M9, and can compare it with a v8 50mm 'cron and a 45mm f/2 G2 Planar that I also have in M mount. Well worth it, and definitely not for everybody. </p>

Hello all! There is a plastic/resin material that has an electro-photo-white system in it that goes between full clear and what appears to be full frost. Stick a variostat into the power line and you can vary the effect. Looks pretty cool to me! it's called Smart Tint. Hth, ymmv etc.