leica glow?

[Gabriel M.A.]

That's mashed potatoes 😉

 

[porktaco]

 

[Vince Lupo]

Leica glow from a 73 Hektor

 

[Chris101]

I thought radioactive lenses glowed.

 

[Corto]

AGFA ISOLETTE GLOW!!

 

[muser53]

Leica glow from a 73 Hektor

Men sweat, women glow.

 

[seakayaker1]

Men sweat, women glow.

. . . . . the way I first heard that expression was that "horses sweat, men perspire, and women glow!"

 

[Jamie Pillers]

Universal rule #736: the more open the lens, the more glow. 🙂

 

[Sparrow]

Universal rule #736: the more open the lens, the more glow. 🙂

... or the more out of focus, the more the glow ... as demonstrated in this thread 😉

 

[Richard G]

... or the more out of focus, the more the glow ... as demonstrated in this thread 😉

+1. Wouldn't even look at a Leica lens based on this thread.

 

[porktaco]

. . . . . the way I first heard that expression was that "horses sweat, men perspire, and women glow!"

the quote is attributed to orson welles...

...Orson Welles, about his wife Rita Hayworth, on the set of Lady from Shanghai. The director of photography told him Rita was sweating and it was visible on the film. Orson said sternly, "Horses sweat. Men perspire. Miss Hayworth glows."

 

[Sparrow]

the quote is attributed to orson welles...

...Orson Welles, about his wife Rita Hayworth, on the set of Lady from Shanghai. The director of photography told him Rita was sweating and it was visible on the film. Orson said sternly, "Horses sweat. Men perspire. Miss Hayworth glows."

I'm pretty sure Oscar Wilde would have something to say about that

 

[RObert Budding]

Based on this thread, I'd conclude that Leica glow = (poor focus + bad composition).

 

[Vince Lupo]

Cats can glow too!

 

[leicapixie]

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101536

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101536

The older Leica lenses have glow.It ain't simply out of focus, blur, the shakes or taken during shell fire or 'quakes! It is often referred to, in the past, esp. in German magazines/books as "plastik/plastic".
My collapsible 50mm Summicron, 135mm Hektor has it in boatloads.
My Pentax Super Takumar have none of these wonders.

 

[David Hughes]

Hi,

Didn't the Leica glow stories start when someone wondered about a Leitz slide projector lens and had it adapted to fit his camera? It was a 125mm HeKtor . The story is somewhere in Theo Scheerer's book.

Regards, David

 

[SausalitoDog]

Shot thru a nylon stocking? 🙂

Tom

 

[Vince Lupo]

I think it's a combination of the older lenses not being coated, and is particularly noticeable with the faster lenses shot close to wide open (such as the 50/2 Summar, the 50/1.5 Xenon and the 73/1.9 Hektor). The shots are 'sharp' but a different kind of sharpness, if that makes sense. The thing that I really like is when shooting colour film -- along an edge in which there are two colours on either side of that edge, they almost 'bleed' onto one another. You can kinda see it in that shot of my wife from a few years back (this is a scan from a print, BTW). Think I shot that one at about f/2. The uncoated elements also contribute to the colour being flatter (in terms of contrast and saturation), but I actually quite like that. Interesting that simply shooting a newer lens wide open doesn't deliver the same results -- maybe it's the quality of the glass, the coatings etc?

If I can find any more 'glowy' shots (or at least ones that I think are 'glowy'!), I'll upload them.

 

[Vince Lupo]

Found another one -- it seems that I had better luck with my 73/1.9 Hektor...maybe because of its focal length?

 

[RObert Budding]

Absolutely

Absolutely

+1. Wouldn't even look at a Leica lens based on this thread.

+1. Placebo effect.