Leica LTM Color with Summar.

[KenD]

Summar 50 f2.0 on M2

 

[Hibbs]

Hibbs,
I may have 18 50mm RF lenses, but I do not own the Serenar. I have read that images by it may look similar to a Summar.

Hehehe...I thought you had that one. I'd heard it is more like a Summitar...and had never heard comparisons to a Summar.

Maybe someone else can clarify.

 

[raid]

The Summitar is sharp and it is better controlled against flare than the Summar. The Serenar can give you dreamy images, I have read.

 

[amateriat]

Sanders: that image is simply enchanting. I could go technical on you right now, but what the hell would be the point?


- Barrett

 

[Sanders McNew]

Shameless plug for my wife.

Shameless plug for my wife.

I hope you all will forgive me for
hijacking my own thread, but I wanted
to alert you all to the September 18
opening of my wife Melanie's show of
her photography at the Lead Apron
Gallery in Los Angeles, "Jacob's Ladder."
Come to think of it ... she is the subject
of the photograph that started the thread
... maybe it isn't a hijack after all.

I've posted a new thread here on the show
and you can find the particulars there:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=889053#post889053

We hope to see some of you on the eighteenth.

Sanders McNew

 

[raid]

Sanders and Melanie,

I wish you an excellent show and good luck. If I had been anywhere close to where the show will be given, I would have tried to make it there.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Late reply,

Thanks for the comment Helen.

Some Summar negatives I got around to scanning today:

I'm pretty sure the grain in the sky is due to the film. KodaColor VR Plus 400

 

[Sanders McNew]

Mr. F, what aperture were you using?

 

[Mr_Flibble]

I stuck to 1/500th most of the time during that ride around the 4x4 track so I guess it would've been between f/6 and f/9. They were all guesstimates.

That second to last one really was under-exposed, but the skin color is typical for war-time photos I feel

 

[KenD]

Have we heard from Sanders recently? Or had any of his super shots?

 

[Sanders McNew]

I've been shooting my Rolleiflexes
and Brownies so I've not had an
occasion to post stuff here of late.
It is kind of you to remember me. 🙂

If you want to see what I've been
shooting, you can find me at

www.flickr.com/sandersnyc

where I try to post photographs as
I shoot them. I'll try to shoot some
color with the Summar in the next
few weeks and contribute here.

Sanders

 

[Mr_Flibble]

I've been cheating.....I've had my Summar lens on my Epson R-D1 for the last 2 weeks, so I'm not sure it would be appropriate to post the results here in the Leica LTM section. 😉

 

[johannielscom]

I've been cheating.....I've had my Summar lens on my Epson R-D1 for the last 2 weeks, so I'm not sure it would be appropriate to post the results here in the Leica LTM section. 😉

Hm. Similar trouble: I got so fired up reading this thread just now, I went upstairs, put tape on the Summar and the Summar on the M8.

Should I post here or not? I've scored at least one great shot...!

 

[Sonnar Brian]

Well, the LENS is LTM!

I vote Post the Shots. Besides, with the adapter on those cameras, they ARE LTM cameras.

Now, if I convert one to S-Mount, I will post it on the Nikon RF forum.

 

[Sonnar Brian]

My best color sample with the Summar, so far. This is an early lens, perfect glass, SN puts it at 1933.

On the Leica IIIa.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Summar on my Epson R-D1: 400 ASA 1/125th @ f/9
I forget the exact date of manufacture of my Summar, but it is a pre-war one.
I think the R-D1's image processor influences the Summar's characteristics quite a bit.

I need to go through about a 100 photos from a WW2 re-enactment photo shoot from last weekend. I'm sure something interesting will turn up to post here.

 

[johannielscom]

Well, the LENS is LTM!

I vote Post the Shots. Besides, with the adapter on those cameras, they ARE LTM cameras.

Now, if I convert one to S-Mount, I will post it on the Nikon RF forum.

Right, I like that line of thought. Here you are:

Yes I know it's a pet shot, they were the only models I had at hand in the spur of the moment🙂

This is shot on M8, ISO 160, f2.0, 1/30th. I shot about twelve photos, this one was the best by far, due to timing.

I love the 15cm DOF at close up in this lens, and it's low contrast. Should get some real models (safe to say, the dog isn't paying attention to me right now)

 

[Mr_Flibble]

That's a great picture, looks like there's a little starring contest going on 😉


These are from two weeks ago, also with the R-D1

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Here is a selection of photos from last weekend, not much colour beyond Olive Drab and Khaki though 😉

Weekend at the Engineer Museum Vught

No glow 🙁

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Don't worry, they were dummy rounds! Most of our arms are modified to only fire blanks. And there's the business of having all the permits 😉
The 50-cal and the Flamethrower are live-firing, but they were on loan from the Royal Dutch Engineers.