75mm lens, Why do you use it?

There have been plenty of times when I was shooting a Rolleiflex or Autocord TLR with its 75mm lens and cropped a 35mm negative sized area out of the image to use it as a potrait lens.
 
Because 35 + 75 is an ideal two lens combo. Because the 75/1.4 is my all-time favorite lens signature-wise.

35 + 90 would be similarly usable. But 75 is easier to frame on an RF.
 
There seems to be a lot of love/I forget to use it for the CV 75/2.5.

Wayne, wading through the 75-85-90-90 dilema in Northeast Texas.
 
I used to be a fan of the a Nikkor 85 guy.......... but then I bought a 75/2 Summicron and the quality of the photos is incredible. The only caution is it may be TOO sharp for every portrait.
 
Read E. Puts review of the Summarits. The 75mm Summarit is only a half stop slower than the Summicron. He felt that it was as sharp. Personally, if the meter reads at 1/30 then 1/60 will be fine with black and white and that compensates for the half stop.
 
ferider said:
Because 35 + 75 is an ideal two lens combo. Because the 75/1.4 is my all-time favorite lens signature-wise.
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Although I don't have a second M-body yet, I figure my 75 Lux V2 paired with my 35/2.0 V4 cron will be the untimate two lens-two body kit.

The small size of the cron helps make up for the size of the 75 lux. The extra reach of the 75 becomes very handy and the spacing from a 35 is knda perfect on a rangefinder. For longer teles I go slr.

The 75 lux carries a lot better hung vertically on a m-grip on my M6 that I intergrated both a hand strap and neck strap into. The leverage and the weight of the lux makes it want to counterlever all the time and this creates discomfort. When hung vertically like an early M5 this discomfort is eliminated. My hand strap secures the camera better and allows me to steady the camera better.

I took some nylon strap material and potted it into the rear cavity behind the grip. Used a metal standoff as an armature and first sewed the strap and standoff together before potting. I made this rig a lot less awkward, where the weight is carried better so it seems a lot lighter.

My 75 lux offers a lot of flexibility; and, before I bought a 50 rigid, it was used 60-70% of the time as my everyday carry. A 50 rigid, although smaller is still a heavy lens. I use a leica 1.40X magnifier on a 0.72 M6 with the lux. The slow focus is not a handicap and can be overcome with practice. Another nice feature is the close focus. Very nice bokeh also.

Calzone
 
FPjohn said:
Hello Calzone:

May we see the rig you describe?

yours
FPJ
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I'm an old film guy who is digitally handicapped. I apologize for being totally lame lame.

Is it possible that any RFF in New York City could help me out? I work on the upper East Side and I live in Long Island City.

My M6 is an early Wetzlar version that is likely a prototype for the later Ti M6's. It is esscentially a chrome Wetzlar M6 with an engraved Ti toplate. It predates the Ti M6 by about 5 years. A salesperson at B&H gave me James Lager's phone number to call so he can see my camera. My leica is a gawker whenever I go into a camera store.

The back of the M-Grip has a concave cavity. I took a 1/4 inch steel standoff that normally is used to hold a electronic circuit board as my armature that perhaps is less than 1 1/2 inches long. The nylon webbing strap material I used was 3/4's of an inch wide. I wrapped a loop around the standoff and double stitched it together tightly.

I fussed around a lot and experimented with many possible configurations, but I found that in both the hand strap and neck strap a twist made it so that the strap formed and held a natural opening.

I feed my hand through the front of the hand strap, and run it through my hand in a manner that whed I grab th e grip the strap lays flat and is tight. Effectively I could shoot one handed it the shutter is cocked and the camera is secured. My left hand is utilized for mostly just focus.

The neck strap is part of the same continuous length that doubles back to the anchor point standoff.

I used 5 minute two-part epoxy to pot the standoff/anchor. Using a heat gun allowed the epoxy to level itself, and I masked off the surrounding area to minimize any possibility of an accident. The end result is a wrist strap that is tight when you grab the grip that looks pro.

Calzone
 
I used the 60mm on the M8 and now am switching to 75mm on the M9. I find that 75mm-80mm FOV to be a great complement for 35mm.
The 75mm Lux and Cron are extremely versatile. Close-ups, portraits and in my case, a lot of street shots. 75mm is great for shots with some distance where you want to include some of the environment around the subject.
 
For some people the 75 bridges the gap between the 50mm and 90mm. I consider it a luxury lens. The fast speed provides a unique bokeh and for some like myself there is a good "feel" to the Summilux.............Boy, I better find a girlfriend!
 
My vote won't win me any friends I'm sure, but 75mm (and 85mm and 90mm) are awkward focal lengths for me. Which is reinforced by the posted photos in this thread. *Not* saying that those photos are not good, mind you.

35mm and 135mm for me.
 
It's long enough so that people don't notice you

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And then, with the Leica 75s you can get real close (.7m)

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Roland.
 
75mm is about the shortest focal length on 35mm where you don't have converging verticals. Its also a focal length that seems to suit my shooting style a lot, though I do prefer the slight extra reach of an 85mm.
 
sherm said:
I used to be a fan of the a Nikkor 85 guy..........
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I learned photography on an SLR and to this day, I am still a Nikon 85 and 105 shooter. When I started shooting RF's, I tried to like the 35/75 combo, and gave it sufficient time to stick. I captured what I think are good images, but as I've gravitated from the 35mm back to the 50mm, my taste for the 75mm just waned. So, in the past couple of weeks, I traded my seldom used 35/75 combo for something that I know I will put to good use.
 
kxl said:
I learned photography on an SLR and to this day, I am still a Nikon 85 and 105 shooter. When I started shooting RF's, I tried to like the 35/75 combo, and gave it sufficient time to stick. I captured what I think are good images, but as I've gravitated from the 35mm back to the 50mm, my taste for the 75mm just waned. So, in the past couple of weeks, I traded my seldom used 35/75 combo for something that I know I will put to good use.
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ha Keith 😱, you and I are trading 'fields of view' so to speak 😀
 
I especially take one out after a thread like this gets revived 🙂


Blackened Fir by unoh7, on Flickr

CV 75/2.5 is possibly the best value for dollar of any M lens. So Small. 28/75 can work well as two lens set.
 
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