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The eight-element 35mm Summicron of 1958, eight elements in six groups by Walter Mandler, is the lens collectors treat as the high point of the pre-aspherical 35mm line. This is the M3 version, coded SAMWO and later 11108, carrying the auxiliary goggles that bring the 35mm field into the M3 finder and focus down to 0.65m; 9,557 of the 21,492 bayonet lenses were built that way. Chrome was standard and black finish rare, and the earliest barrels use a brass bayonet mount.