Hey! So what's your matchup? On a Leica Barnack type?

My If has a Voigtlander 15mm & a Leicavit

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My IIIf has a Voigtlander 21mm & a Leicavit.

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I also have a black Canon 50mm f/1.8 & a 1995 55mm f/2.8 Industar for when I just want to carry the IIIf with a normal lens.

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The $20 Industar was so bad when I got I forgot about it for a few years. When I found it again I sent it to Don Goldberg who cleaned it, lubed it, and set it properly focus. Now it's a nice little Tessar type lens.
 


My current setup (I posted something similar above, but setups change and now I have a photo to include). First one is a matched 1949 sharkskin IIIc and coated 10-blade Summitar, topped with a Voigtländer brightline finder; the second is a 1946 IIIc with my new W.Acall 35/3.5 and Komura brightline finder (which is bigger than it looks in the picture).
 
johannielscom said:
Congrats on the Acall O2Pilot, it is a brilliant lens and not very well-known. Remarkably sharp and contrasty for a 1960s lens.

I definitely recommend getting a hood, I owned several incarnations of this lens (Komura, Acall, Force) and always got my fat fingers in the frame! 😛 In the other thread you started I posted a link to my website page on the Sankyo Kohki-produced lenses for LTM cameras, enjoy!
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They may be not well-known, but up until recently they were well-known enough that people kept bidding them up. They must have been sleeping when I snagged this one. 😉

Hood is on its way. Rather than chasing an original (I'm not a stickler for originality), I ordered up a 34-46mm step-up ring and a 46mm wide (shallow, straight-sided) hood that should match the dimensions of the original fairly closely. I like hoods on my lenses, so it was a given that I would get something for it.

Since you know a lot about the Sankyo Kohki line, do you have any info on the Komura VF I picked up? I've seen a few of the non-brightline pieces, but this one is bigger and seemingly less common.
 
My go-to set-up is a IIIc with a coated Summitar or a CV Skopar 50/2.5. I also have coated and uncoated Elmar 50/3.5 lenses but use those less often these days.

I've also got a Canon IVSB2, on which I keep a Canon 50/1.5.

If I want to go wider with either body, I go to a Canon 35/2.0 or a Summaron 35/3.5, or a CV Skopar 28/3.5.

I took the IIIc, Summitar, and Canon 35/2.0 to Europe this summer, shot 20 rolls of TMax 400, and had a blast.
 
My matchups keep changing. Here's the IIIc with the W.Acall 35/3.5 sporting its cool new (to me - thanks mdarnton!) matching hood.



And this body was recently added to the stable, which meant I had to decide on a lens to live on it day-to-day. I ended up going with my Canon 50/1.9, as I do like a collapsible lens on a Barnack body, and it seemed silly to go with something other than a 50 on this.



And to confuse the issue further, I just took the IIIg on vacation; in addition to the 50/1.9, I took the W.Acall 35/3.5 and the Komura VF, and my Canon 100/3.5, which was close enough to use the 90mm framelines. Very handy kit.
 
My Barnack setup is simple: IIIb, SCNOO, Elmar 50/3.5 RS, SBOOI. I'm not quite ready for uncoated lenses, but prewar bodies are amazing for their build quality (and they're smaller).
 
I just recently came across this original little kit.
A 36/37 IIIa w/ a Summar and a Hugo Meyer Trioplan 105/2.8 lens. 🙂
The Leica needs some slow speed love, and the Summar is in a tad above average condition, but oh my, the Trioplan is in excellent condition with some light cosmetic barrel wear and some haze on the rear element that came clear with alcohol.

What a nice lens this is. I took it outdoors yesterday and shot a few quick snaps with my Sony 5n and was immediately impressed with it, even wide open.

I'm beginning to realize that triplets have been highly underrated lens formulas, but I guess that's changing lately because the Trioplan seems to be selling for quite bit of money these days.

Of course, this 105/2.8 doesn't show up often on auction sites, and is considered to be very rare, but it really is a darn nice and fast tele, and
it focuses easy on my 5n. A very handy attribute.

By the way, if anyone has experience with this lens I'd love to read more about it.

Leica IIIa w/Summar & Trioplan 105/2.8 by Jack Conrad, on Flickr
 
This set up with the torpedo finder always makes me think of the Great War. The finder gives a mirror image, but is bright and very precise.

Leica M5, Nokton-M 50mm f/1.5, Tmax400.

Erik.

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For me it is a IIIf RD with a wrist strap with either the coated Elmar 50/3.5 or Skopar 50/2.5 always paired with my Skopar 28/3.5. If bulk isn't a problem the camera is in the bottom half of an old case. The mini-finder is used with the 28 lens.
 
I just got a iiif which is a big jump up in usability to my original 30's iii. Much better viewfinder/rangefinder, just feels a bit more refined. I've got a variety of lenses to work with the camera too. Anything from a 35mm Schneider (fairly rare) to a 90mm elmar. Usually stick to a 50 elmar or a coated summar. Just picked up a 1.5 summarit in thread mount that should be a fun match up to. Choices 😀
 
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