Industar-22 and R-D1s

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I bought a Zorki S a few months ago, but never had a successful roll with it. Then someone told me I could take the lens off and mount it on any Leica LTM/M compatible camera. So I gave it a try last week.

After I saw the results, I was a bit surprised. It was sharper than I'd expect from an old lens. The color rendition matched my impression from a Russian lens though. Not an amazing lens, but could be useful when I want the "old-timer" flavor.

(Yet I wonder if I should get myself a Jupiter lens....)

Here are the photos.

[Glow of Old]

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I set the exposure to +0.7, so that the picture would look like the real world situation, while the sunlight was very strong.


[Old Lens for Old Dog]

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[Vintage? A Bit I Think.]

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[Another EV+0.7 Shot]

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[Not Bad for B/W]

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[Not Sharp, but Not Bad for This Shot]

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[50mm Becomes A Portait Lens]

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[Another B/W Shot]

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[Funny Vintage Shot]

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I said it's funny because it really looks like a shot I saw when I was a child.

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It's small. It's light. It's collapsible. And it's darn cheap. Could be useful sometimes.
 
Looks like you're getting some nice results. There's a certain richness to the tonality in the dog shot. Or maybe that's just the dog. Pooh, on the other hand, is looking a little washed out 🙂
I have a some older LTM 50's, like a Summitar and a Jupiter-8, for that potential "old-lens" effect. However, I find myself not using them much mostly because of awkward handling and because I tend not to use a 50 very much on the RD1. And when I do the Summilux is awfully nice.

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PS I just stuck the Summitar on the RD1 to play around with it. It *is* nice and compact....
 
I get good results with my I-22 lens and it focuses fine at infiniti.

here is a wide open sample (sorry large so you can see how it performs):
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Wow! I guess I'll have to practice more.... Great shot Krosya!

I have to take the infinity lock part off the I-22, or it will be blocked by the LTM to M adaptor while turning to infinity.

No backfocus problem @ wide open here.
 
deepwhite said:
I have to take the infinity lock part off the I-22, or it will be blocked by the LTM to M adaptor while turning to infinity.
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You cut off with Dreimel? 😀 I thought why not cut some bit of a cheap chinese adapter and see how it works out. Might interfere with framelines coupling?
 
Mine does not focus accurately at < 2m (can't remember if it's front or back focusing). Works fine on infinity on the Zorki 4K, but with M/LTM adapters (even the ones with cutout) it doesn't go the last mm to infinity lock (neither did an I-50 collapsible I had) but still took great photos at infinity and beyond...
 
deepwhite said:
No I just unscrewed the part off the lens. What's a "Dreimei" and a "cheap Chinese adaptor"?
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good to know it can be unscrewed though I tried it hard. Seems tough.

dreimel you can cut anything else. Look through google. There are some cheap chinese LTM-M adapters in Ebay 🙂
 
The tool is called Dremel.

And yes - you can remove infinity lock by unscrewing it. I just did that with the infinity lock on my Canon 50/1.4 lens. I put the parts away so that i can put it back if I ever want to sell the lens.

I've seen some lenses with part of the inf.lock filed off. 😱 Please don't do that.
 
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