Leica LTM "Lomo" LTM lens?

[Assaf]

Hi there,
this issue popped in a conversation I had with a friend.
He talked about trying a Holga or Lomo cameras and I replied : "I'll very easily find a cheap Russian LTM lens with a Lomo character and mount it on my Leica."

Welll.... I'm not sure I was right about that, or was I?
Anybody had experience with such a lens (soft focus, pronounce vignetting etc.)?

Good night
Assaf

 

[xayraa33]

try a Summar lens.
an example with lots of scratches and a bit of haze.
they are easy to find in this condition.

 

[ferider]

A J-8 for 20 bucks and some vaseline ...

 

[Epimetheus]

A J-8 for 20 bucks and some vaseline ...

J-8 won’t vignette like Holga or Lomo and it isn’t soft enough. It’s much more fun to shoot with the real thing than trying to make a decent lens crap.

 

[thafred]

hi, why not trash a LC-A and build your own..ltm Lomo lens was my last winter project

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34390&highlight=lomo

most russian ltm lenses I tried gave far superior image quality than the Minotar(J8,J3, Orion28), the leitz summar has nice vignetting but is a 50mm lens! also pale colors due to no coating (and haze in mine)...the summar is a lovely lens otherwise! for 30mm there is no equivalent of the lomo lens (the 28mm Orion 28/6 is a too good lens to be compared to lomo..in the center it´s sharp as a razor at any f-stop)

good luck with your search! (better make yourself one ;-)
cheers
fred

 

[Ash]

Make one yourself, just like Thafred

 

[ZorkiKat]

One trait which LomoCrappers like about the LOMO LKA's lens is its ability to produce saturated colours. An Industar would do that. But it stops at that. They don't vignette nor make fuzzy focus, unless a collapsible is used and used with fully extending and locking it.

Jay

 

[Assaf]

thafred, I'm really impressed!
I'll try the J-8 of a friend too
Thanks for the answers and good night
Assaf

 

[Seamus04]

This guy makes body cap lenses for different mounts using Holgas -- might be willing to make an LTM version.

http://www.holgamods.com/index.html

 

[Andrew Sowerby]

I own two LC-As. My $0.02:

The Minitar lens is not particularly soft. It's just that you have limited focusing options because it's a zone focus camera. No different from an XA2/3. If you want soft focus use a filter, Vaseline or just don't focus on the subject.

All this carrying on about saturated colours is a red herring as well. Choice of film and PS tweaking makes a much bigger difference. The vingetting, however, is fun and fairly specific to the Minitar lens.

 

[ZorkiKat]

All this carrying on about saturated colours is a red herring as well. Choice of film and PS tweaking makes a much bigger difference.

Comparisons we did tend to show that the Minitar(and lots of other Soviet lenses as well) made more colour saturation indeed. It's not just the choice of film. One test made years ago- before negatives got scanned before being printed or got any post-processing for that matter- showed that even the cheap, store-branded films made snappier hues through a Minitar. These store-branded films typically made less punchy hues when used with "usual" lenses. And the photos involved were direct 'optical' (light-negative-lens-paper) prints from the older, non-digital type printers.

 

[landsknechte]

All you really need to do is get drunk at a party and take photos of your friends. Throw in a few shots of your shoes for good measure. Cross-process the roll, and voila!