My most special lens

andrealed said:
The standard hood for elmar is easy to use. You can change the aperture quite simply with your fingertip.
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Once I made my own home made. Compared to the original I can better understand why mine was not so comfortable.

The original is short and slightly conical, the outer side seems to be slightly smaller than the basis. By these way you can have a shorter hood shadowing as a larger conventional one.

And by having it short, the access of our finger becomes easier.
Clever.

Cheers,
Ruben
 
Hi Krosya,

Would it be fair to say that with such a lens you take into more special consideration the light direction as another technical factor like speed and aperture ? I notice that in you first BW photo here you seem to downward the camera a bit, while in the other BW images the sun is by your side or slightly behind.

But what would happen in a street environment full of reflections from every side?

Cheers,
Ruben
 
Hi Ruben,
Well, I'm not really sure how this lens would react under those conditions. With any lens I try to consider different factors, like reflections, direction of the sun, etc. So, yes, it is possible that it wouldnt handle some things as well as a new lens with modern coating. Yet so far I didn't come across that particular situation or didint notice it.
So, I can't say that I take more consideration with this lens vs others. I think I do it more or less on the same level. If I get the shot - good, if not - oh well.
Hope this answers your question.
 
I got my first Fed 2 quite recently- in fact I haven't got round to figuring out what version (sn: 174746). It came with the Fed 50 f3.5 collapsable lens, plus a B+W 36 UV filter and Omag K36 lens hood. It is a bit of a pain having to take off filter "and" hood to change aperture....
 
xayraa33 said:
the Leitz universal lens hood, Fikus, is no better at the aperture ring access on the Elmar than the home made lens hood.
I know that Leitz had a dedicated Elmar 50mm lens hood that one could manipulate the aperture control from the outside.
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It's the Leitz VALOO.

It was primarily a darkroom accessory, not an actual hood. The Elmar 50/3.5 was often used as an enlarger lens. Problem, the aperture setting dot, concentric to the front lens element, was even more a *pita* to use with the Elmar fitted vertically under the enlarger platine, than what it was with the Elmar casually mounted on a Barnack Leica.

Hence the VALOO design, with that clever trick of driving the Elmar aperture setting dot from the hood itself thanks to a right-angle rotating cam and a ring on the hood to drive the cam.

Then, Elmar owners and users figured out, that the VALOO was a very capable lens hood for in-the-field picture taking, too. What it is, no doubt.

Although being (frankly said, no pun intended) plain ugly... :p

The Elmar 50/3.5 regular hood is the Leitz FISON.

ruben said:
Really really outstanding pics.

Time to reveal a little secret. There is a place in my heart for the Fed 2 models, mostly because of these collapsibles. But I never imagined such high levels of performance. Hmmmmmm.

But it is precisely the lens, not suited for hoods what I don't understand. Obviously if you put any kind of hood you will not be able to comfortably manipulate the f/stops scale. And for me, not using any hood in a lens is the biggest blasphemy I cannot overcome.

Can any one rescue me ?
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Hey, from what I've read recently, you don't have a FED or Zorki etc, but a Kiev, right ?

Hmmm... just look at eBay item 260234622475.

Here you have a great chance to get both, and more. I mean, a lens that isn't coated, which is collapsible, and which will fit the camera you already have.

Plus, it's up for sale by a FSU stuff seller... ;)

Neat, isn't it ?

:)
 
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