Magic Summitar

[Marc-A.]

Summitar is magic, show some pictures taken with this lens.

 

[john neal]

OK - here are mine - autumn sun, Leica II and Summitar at f2 or 2.8 last weekend (my wife & our grandson). Somewhat overexposed Kodak 400VR - these are low-res scans from the mini-lab with no adjustments.

 

[csisfun]

That bokeh is swirly!

 

[john neal]

A couple more from the end of the roll - wide open at 1/30, and about 5.6 at 1/60 - huge difference in depth of field and sharpness!

 

[mr_phillip]

Fabulous lenses. This is me (hello!) at f4:

 

[maddoc]

And here my recent shots with the M4-P + Summitar, all shots taken with f/2.0 (Tri-X / D-76):

 

[Marc-A.]

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Summitar is magic

I shall not dispute that fact. I love it. I should use it more than I have been.

From my first roll ever shot with a Summitar (which RayPa now owns):


Leica M6 + 50mm f/2 Summitar / Ilford XP2

 

[peterm1]

Now thats the Summitar I remember. I must get mine out and use it more. I have always thought that the Summitar is like the Summar on steroids. Same nice early lens look for black and white shots, especially when the lens is opened up, but better. Which of course is what the designers intended.

 

[Bingley]

Beautiful images, Marc and Gabriel. I also recall another of Marc's, taken of his wife looking at their daughter, that I thought was pretty magical, too.

Hey, Marc! Any new models (a.k.a. recent arrivals) at your house? New picture opportunities, perchance?

 

[martin-f5]

I shall not dispute that fact. I love it. I should use it more than I have been.

From my first roll ever shot with a Summitar (which RayPa now owns):

superbe photo,
how do you scan your films,
can please tell it?

regards

martin

 

[Krosya]

Sorry for a dusty scan, but it was flatbed scan of a print.

 

[Krosya]

here is another one from Summitar:

 

[Krosya]

and one more:

 

[HuubL]

ohh, great photos. I bought one just a week ago and waiting for it to arrive. This isn't making the wait easier 🙂

 

[like2fiddle]

I don't have much to show because I don't have a negative scanner, but here is a B&W (Kodak C41) which has been flatbed scanned, and a color example (Provia 400) which was scanned to CD at a one-hour photo lab.

One of the strengths of this lens, IMHO, is it's many faces. Wide open, as in the B&W shot, quite soft, almost dreamy. At F 5.6 (color photo) and up, good detail and ok color resolution.

Please forgive me if I'm not attaching these properly. These two photos were part of a previous Summitar discussion back in April, and I don't know how to repost them here. 😱 In any case, you will find many nice Summitar photos from members in the other thread🙂

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=43601&d=1176120241
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=43602&d=1176120451

 

[MCTuomey]

what gorgeous photos! gabriel and marc, excellent lighting in your portraits as well. thank you all for posting such fine work ...

 

[Todd.Hanz]

some old stuff...

Todd

 

[Dektol Dan]

Here's one of mine

Here's one of mine

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=66807

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

Thank you, Mike and Martin for the nice comments.

Well, I scanned that first photo with the Konica-Minolta Dual Scan IV. Many people say it's a bad scanner, and I felt the same way, until I started using SilverFast instead of the b^tt-ugly bundled software. Many photo companies make the worst imaging software.

I re-scanned some with my Coolscan 5000. With C41 film, I saved countless hours in post-processing dust-spotting using "ICE".