My new Leitz Summitar!

with the zeiss cap I got it and the fed hood I will adapt for it.
Today a lens like that looks as antiquated as a ford T. Made in 1939,uncoated, in old style apperture stops with no clicks,stops down to only 12.5,with no standard filter thread.

I like the way it sits on the zorki,I like the quality of the build that survived 67 years(longer then both my grandfathers),I like the way it states Ernst Leitz Wetzlar,made in Germany - A person,a family a city,a country - not a cold conglomerate spitting items of production lines manned by faceless underpaid third world country employees.

I like the way light reflects unchanged of the uncoated glass-I've heard uncoated glass gives bitching mid tones-I will check it.I hope I will like the way the lens performs,it would be unpleasant to ne dissapointed in such a piece of history - I could probably sell it for the price I got it but I would like it to replace the more common(and appreceated by me) Jupiter 8(mine is 1959,coated and spectacular)and
take it's share of picture among the russian and japanese lenses I own.
I like the way old lenses were special,not uniformly sharp and contrasty(at least in theory) each lens had it's color,sharpness and bokeh signature,it's feel and it's uses.