First photos with Elmar 90/4

[danielnorton]

Got a beautiful Elmar 90/4 as a trade with Memphis (thanks!) Last week. Below is an image from my first roll. Shot in my studio with flash on my Bessa r3a. I'm loving the 90mm focal length 😀

 

[Rich Silfver]

Looks really great. What film did you use?
Wish the test shots from my Elmar 90/4 looked as good 🙂

 

[danielnorton]

Thanks Rich, this was Ilford fp4+ shot at 100 - developed at the lab - scanned on my epson 3200 flatbed.

Forgot to say, this was at about f 4.5 /125

 

[Rich Silfver]

Thanks. I have the same scanner myself so can't use that as an excuse 🙂

 

[Mike Kovacs]

I have a 90/4 Elmar on the way (prewar vintage I believe). Looking forward to getting results in that league from it 🙂

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

Got a beautiful Elmar 90/4 as a trade with Memphis(thanks!) Last week. Below is an image from my first roll. Shot in mystudio with flash on my Bessa r3a. I'm loving the 90mm focal length 😀

The lady isn't hard on the eyes either, great shot. That lens and your eye are good together.

 

[JimG]

One great feature of this lens is how easy it is to work on. Mine had a moderate amount of fungus on one element and haze on the other. With some advise and encouragement from Walker Smith I got the all the glass clear and cleaned as new. Can't wait to try it out now.

 

[Ronald M]

They were made for years and now you know why.

 

[OpenWater]

One great feature of this lens is how easy it is to work on. Mine had a moderate amount of fungus on one element and haze on the other. With some advise and encouragement from Walker Smith I got the all the glass clear and cleaned as new. Can't wait to try it out now.

So how does one clean the inside of the front element(s?) of a 90mm Elmar? I also have a new-old Elmar. I could see haze in it after I shined a flashlight through it and thought I would try to clean the rear element. The locking ring was loose so I just unscrewed that, noted where everything was, and carefully cleaned the element. The haze came right off. It looks so much better I thought I might try the front - even though the lens looks clear. I just don't want to screw it up in doing so. I would be interested in how you did yours.

 

[JimG]

So how does one clean the inside of the front element(s?) of a 90mm Elmar? I also have a new-old Elmar. I could see haze in it after I shined a flashlight through it and thought I would try to clean the rear element. The locking ring was loose so I just unscrewed that, noted where everything was, and carefully cleaned the element. The haze came right off. It looks so much better I thought I might try the front - even though the lens looks clear. I just don't want to screw it up in doing so. I would be interested in how you did yours.

Open Water, This was the first time I took a lens apart so I should be the last person to give advise on how to do it. What happened was after I separated the front and back of the lens barrel (I used the back of a mouse pad to get a grip) I was lucky that the fungus was on the now exposed back side of the front half. The haze was on the rear part of the lens, so again I was lucky. I didn't take the lens any further apart then that because I didn't need to. There are lot's of people here who can describe the right way to do this better then I can.

 

[MinorTones]

I tried to open my 90/4 Elmar to lube the aperature ring because it was moving the focus when I tried to change aperature. Now i cant get the two little screws back in their holes. Sorry to hi-jack a thread.

-Mitch

 

[JimG]

I tried to open my 90/4 Elmar to lube the aperature ring because it was moving the focus when I tried to change aperature. Now i cant get the two little screws back in their holes. Sorry to hi-jack a thread.

-Mitch

Mitch, If you go to the Optics thread and open a new thread asking a question re. Elmars I'm sure you will get some really useful information there.

 

[Igor.Burshteyn]

Looks like credit goes to the photographer - hard to judge lens contribution to this great shot. If you have shots with another lens from the same session - please post them, would be interesting to compare different lenses on the same subject/lighting.

 

[danielnorton]

Other shots

Other shots

Igor, thanks for your kind words. As a reference, I also shot during this session with my jupiter 8 on the bessa and my mamiya 645 with the 80/2.8

Here's a shot with the Jupiter 8, though the lighting is different as well.