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This is the first 35mm Summicron in silver chrome, built at Ernst Leitz Canada in Midland, Ontario, where Walter Mandler's optical group worked; Wetzlar produced the lens as well. The eight-element, six-group design ran from 1958 to 1969 in 21,492 bayonet examples plus 577 screw-mount lenses, with a sixteen-blade diaphragm, f/2 to f/16, E39 filters and 0.7m close focus. Chrome-plated brass gives it real weight in the hand along with the drawing that made the eight-element name.