irq506
just curious
I am the very happy new owner of a Summicron ASPH.
So Im oogling over the new hardware and realise that there is no red dot on the lens barrel.... then I realise that there is in fact an adapter on this thing, but wait its ASPH...whats going on? Hey it works Im not complaining but erm... Im confused.
Can someone please enlighten me here?
Maybe this is a regular production item but Ive never seen or heard of it.
So Im oogling over the new hardware and realise that there is no red dot on the lens barrel.... then I realise that there is in fact an adapter on this thing, but wait its ASPH...whats going on? Hey it works Im not complaining but erm... Im confused.
Can someone please enlighten me here?
Maybe this is a regular production item but Ive never seen or heard of it.
nobbylon
Veteran
is it an ltm aspheric with bayonet adapter?
ChrisN
Striving
Not sure about the M-mount adapter, but the 35 ASPH is made in LTM; see this ebay listing.
peter_n
Veteran
Very nice indeed.
nobbylon
Veteran
ChrisN, thats exactly what I meant and as far as I know the ltm versions didn't have the red dot.
irq506
just curious
Yes, this is a screw mount chrome 35mm Summircon f2 with no red dot. It says nothing about it on the box -which is a white box not a silver/black label one.
I didnt realise this until I got home as it has an M adapter on it. Very convenient for me as I have a ton of screwmount Leica bodies as well as my M6TTL.
I didnt realise this until I got home as it has an M adapter on it. Very convenient for me as I have a ton of screwmount Leica bodies as well as my M6TTL.
irq506
just curious
Ok so I found out that these things were made in very small quantities for the japanese market. Chrome only.
Ken Ford
Refuses to suffer fools
Does that make it a better deal for you? You may be able to sell it for an M mount version and some film money!
Dralowid
Michael
The M fit one will be asignificantly cheaper. I reckon you've got something really quite valuable there, should pay for the Leica habit for a while.
Michael
Michael
terrafirmanada
Well-known
Lucky draw pardner!!
ampguy
Veteran
So how many 35/2 v5 asph versions are there? I know about the chrome, tabbed, ltm, enamel MP version, canada vs german, how many others? Mine is a Wetzler black 35/2 asph cron with concave focus tab, uses rect. xx?26 push on hood, but xx?24 rect. hood from my V4 pre-asph also fits.
irq506
just curious
After posting last night that Id keep it, I thought about that... I bought it because the shop I got it from had two ASPH Summicrons, a black one and this one and a Summilux ASPH in Black, and I actually dont like the black ones after having played with a friends chome lenses, I found them to be significanly more smooth especially the aperture ring after a period of time. They feel warm in my hand and are considerably heavier. All that aside, I had no intention of ever actually buying a Leica, and then I found myself with one, and then I got a little light headed and wanted to have a 35mm lens, a Leica one. This opportunity came up and I grabbed it and 'invested' in a Summicron because I knew it wouldnt lose its value and I would be able to use it to catapult me into a Summilux later on as Id just end up spending that money on something frivolous.
Which brings me to the point now where I have this possible rarity and it could actually be something I could possibly swap with someone who had a Summilux chrome, which would allow me to get a Leicavit, which would complete my manual setup.
I have a plan to have a chrome completely manual setup just for shooting black and white whilst travelling and an M7 (prolly a black one) with the Motor-M and a lens for it, havent quite decided on the lens combination, as I have a 15mm Chrome Voigtlander which is jsut an awesome lens, this 35mm (or another one later on) and Im deciding whether to go north and get a 50 Summilux or say just south of the border and get a 24 or 21 for use on the other body. All in Ive been a digital photographer for fifteen years and it was fun until I was in a place where I had no power and no computers etc, and I coudnt shoot and I couldnt see my images. And what I had was destroyed, 10,000 images. So I just dont trust digital anymore. No matter how good it gets, you still have to plug it in to make it work, and some of us know that there are times and places in the world where that isnt available.
Sorry, thats completely off track...
Which brings me to the point now where I have this possible rarity and it could actually be something I could possibly swap with someone who had a Summilux chrome, which would allow me to get a Leicavit, which would complete my manual setup.
I have a plan to have a chrome completely manual setup just for shooting black and white whilst travelling and an M7 (prolly a black one) with the Motor-M and a lens for it, havent quite decided on the lens combination, as I have a 15mm Chrome Voigtlander which is jsut an awesome lens, this 35mm (or another one later on) and Im deciding whether to go north and get a 50 Summilux or say just south of the border and get a 24 or 21 for use on the other body. All in Ive been a digital photographer for fifteen years and it was fun until I was in a place where I had no power and no computers etc, and I coudnt shoot and I couldnt see my images. And what I had was destroyed, 10,000 images. So I just dont trust digital anymore. No matter how good it gets, you still have to plug it in to make it work, and some of us know that there are times and places in the world where that isnt available.
Sorry, thats completely off track...
peter_n
Veteran
It's all right, you are on a slippery (Leica) slope that we are all very familiar with...
You can lose negs too though. A very good RF photographer in New Orleans lost everything in the Katrina disaster. Many, many years of negatives were lost in the storm.
You can lose negs too though. A very good RF photographer in New Orleans lost everything in the Katrina disaster. Many, many years of negatives were lost in the storm.
irq506
just curious
I took a short trip out of town recently and had to shoot a small job for someone, so I rigged up three pieces of plumbers piping which I got in Home depot, and put my devtank in one, chemicals in the other and some negative pages, gloves and a loupe in the third one, put velcro tape on them strung them togeth and had a (wide) briefcase sized over the shoulder emergency setup. I thoguth it through and in practice it worked out extremely well as the thing is totally water proof. I came back with 20 pages of negs for scanning. Now Id be really happy if I could just find a nice Kindermann 4 tank.....
Anyone?
Anyone?
peter_n said:It's all right, you are on a slippery (Leica) slope that we are all very familiar with...
You can lose negs too though. A very good RF photographer in New Orleans lost everything in the Katrina disaster. Many, many years of negatives were lost in the storm.