a little more summaron 3.5/3.5 love.

SimonSawSunlight

SimonSawSunlight

Simon Fabel
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I have the un-goggled M3 version (which I filed down to bring up the 35mm lines), from 1954 if I'm not mistaken. I use it on my M2s and M4 and on my MDa with a shoe-mount finder.
I have been shooting it almost exclusively during the last week and will keep doing so for another couple of rolls.

here's some summaron love, and there's more to come.































 
Wonderful Series... someof those shots have a Touch of ''Old World' feel

Love the Boys throwing the Rocks & the way the Light Diffuses... Beautiful

I have a 1959 summaron / 35 2.8 with goggles
Not sure which version
but I took off the back ring of the lens
Now it brings up The 35 Framelines....:)

Best-H
 
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Threads like this make me want to use my 3.5 Summaron more. It's a fantastic lens but I haven't used it much since I got my UC-Hexanon almost 2 years ago, then sold that and now have a pre-asph 35 'Lux. It's hard to take that lens off the camera even.

But I'll use the Summaron this week for sure now.

Great shots, Simon!

Phil Forrest
 
There are lots in my gellery at apertures from f/3.5 to f/22. Mine's the screwmount version but it's the same optically. It's being sent for a cleanout (dust and haze) but I fear, as with many Leica 50s lenses, the coatings have gone bad; it's still superb except for some flare into the light.

Of course, the flare works on some subjects; this could have been shot in Victorian times:

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yes, the massive glow/flare looks very cool here.

rogerzilla said:
There are lots in my gellery at apertures from f/3.5 to f/22. Mine's the screwmount version but it's the same optically. It's being sent for a cleanout (dust and haze) but I fear, as with many Leica 50s lenses, the coatings have gone bad; it's still superb except for some flare into the light.

Of course, the flare works on some subjects; this could have been shot in Victorian times:

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Its simply very stiff. I tried taking the back off to see if I could get at the helical easily but got blocked quickly once the first rear ring was off. I'll have to open it up again - I don't remember what was under it.
 
Simon–can you post a picture of where you filed to bring up the 35 lines? I don't shoot mine much on my M8 because it brings up the wrong lines, but I might be tempted to file it down... I shot with it for years on my M3 and have always been very happy with the summaron!!!
 
semordnilap said:
Simon–can you post a picture of where you filed to bring up the 35 lines? I don't shoot mine much on my M8 because it brings up the wrong lines, but I might be tempted to file it down... I shot with it for years on my M3 and have always been very happy with the summaron!!!
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If you do this and use without goggles, focus will be off significantly.

Doesn't matter for large DOF pictures, of course. Nice pics, Simon.
 
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