Leica LTM Leitz 5cm Summitar V 5cm Elmar

[CharlesDAMorgan]

Lovely thread - when I finish my roll on my III with both Elmar and Summitar I may be able to do some comparisons too.

 

[dourbalistar]

Timely, I suppose, since I just posted this to the thread dedicated to Elmar shots. I personally don't have a Summitar for comparison, though.

Leica IIIf, Leitz Elmar 5cm f/3.5, Kodak 400TX, developed in LegacyPro L110 at 1:31 for 6.5 minutes.


2017.03.11 Roll #094-00447-positive.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr

 

[petronius]

IIIc, Elmar (red scale):

 

[petronius]

IIIc, Elmar (red scale):

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Leica IIIc (1942), Summitar (uncoated 1939), Kodak Double-X

 

[davidnewtonguitars]

Elmar

Summitar

 

[Bingley]

I haven't shot much with the Elmar recently, but here are a few Summitar photos from June 2018. All were taken with a Leica IIIc, a coated Summitar from 1949, and TMax 100:

Ghost Ranch by bingley0522, on Flickr

The White Place by bingley0522, on Flickr

Rio Chama by bingley0522, on Flickr

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

Stowe landscape gardens with Palladian bridge and Gothic Temple taken with 1949 Summitar 50mm on Leica III with Kodak Tmax 400 developed in Tmax 1:4

 

[teddy]

I love anything Leica. There's something about the Summitar rendering that I feel uneasy about. The plane of focus can be strange at times. I don't have this lens, but I like it when at infinity from the photos others make with it. Specialy the tone.

 

[CharlesDAMorgan]

It's a lens I rarely use wide open, but at normal apertures I find it sharp enough although not so much in the corners, but I regard the results as generally beautiful - there is a serenity about it and the tones are those of medium contrast that reminds me of my dual range Summicron.

 

[brassandchrome]

I own both Summitar and Elmar, but I prefer the red scale Elmar f3.5 for its surgical details and its definition.
I don't know, Summitar didn't take me at all. Elmar red scale did.
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