Leica LTM Leitz New York Wollensak Velostigmat 50mm/f3.5

[FPjohn]

Fine images. You have an enviable eye!

yours
FPJ

 

[Mudman]

you're making me want to go shoot with my Elmar all day.

 

[LChanyungco]

thanks & i love you guys. in an ltm to m kind of way

 

[johannielscom]

Looking forward to seeing more shots from that lens, Lem! To keep the appettite up, I'll say!

 

[LChanyungco]

unfortunately for me its sitting in a box on a shelf at the moment... im giving my Summicrons all the light at the moment trying to decide which one i'm going to keep... first or latest version. only because i feel i NEED a 35mm already... someone swap me one please ?

 

[ZorkiKat]

Lem, I have the Leica Wollensak with me almost all of the time, on the Nicca. But I can't shoot anything lately, and the roll is just past its 12th exposure mark. Are there just two of us here (on the planet?) who still use this lens?

 

[LChanyungco]

@ 5.6 w/yellow #1 on an M3 with RolleiRetro 100

 

[LChanyungco]

@ 3.5 on an M3 with RolleiRetro 100

 

[LChanyungco]

hi Jay, i think i saw someone on Flicker that uses one... he had 5 or so photos.

Lem, I have the Leica Wollensak with me almost all of the time, on the Nicca. But I can't shoot anything lately, and the roll is just past its 12th exposure mark. Are there just two of us here (on the planet?) who still use this lens?

 

[ZorkiKat]

Found 2 Leitz-Wollensak Velostigmat shots:

Both on Luckypan 100 film, developed in paRodinal.

But 'unfortunately' the lens wasn't attached on a Leica... it was on a 1937 FED-1 and a Zorki-1! ...An American copy lens on Soviet copy bodies.

 

[johannielscom]

Hi zorkikat,

the lens that Lem owned is with me now. I'm happy as a pig in mud with it.

Took it out to shoot in Dutch cities Groningen and Zwolle last week, using both my M3 and my IIIa-sync with it, and RolleiRetro 400.

I hope to post shots here soon. Hopefully my shots with the lens will live up to Lem's, because I always found his shots with it very inspiring!

 

[LChanyungco]

i'm really glad that you have the Wollensak Johan. it couldn't be in better hands

 

[johannielscom]

i'm really glad that you have the Wollensak Johan. it couldn't be in better hands

Nice of you to say Lem,

although I gotta confess I do not shoot it enough. However, I did not shoot any lens enough those last couple of months. Work is keeping me tied up in a terrible manner...


But, I'm loving it and have bought company for it:

• a Leitz N.Y. LTM body cap
• a Leitz N.Y. orange filter
• a Leitz N.Y. lens hood, marked Elmar 50mm, so probably pre-war.

I really hope to shoot it more over summer, when things have calmed down a bit and I will have a chance to visit some cities to shoot.

 

[johannielscom]

Posted this in the Show your LTM Leica thread as well but felt it also really belongs here...


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Leica IIIc (1943) with Leitz Wollensak Velostigmat 50mm 3.5 and E. Leitz N.Y. accessories.

This is now my only Leitz Barnack.

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