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Great shots too.
I used the M9 at ISO 160 with the 35/2 Summicron replica just an hour ago.
link: https://raid.smugmug.com/ReplicaSummicronfirstimagesM9/
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It's a beautiful film, which I took a long time to love. Apart from the low speed to get the lens wide open, it is very high resolution, which has to be the test for me of a good lens. But it's £12 a roll to replace, so the next test roll is a £2.20 roll of Foma 200!
Foma 200 is very good! I just processed three rolls (Foma 100 (35mm), 120 of Foma 200 and TMAX 400) and then scanned them all. When looking at the scans I thought I knew which was the TMAX but it turned out to be the Foma 200. I have a bunch of Foma 100 to get through (bulk and 120) but after that I'm moving to Foma 200.
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Shawn
Nice shots Raid, love the empty dock shot!
Shawn
Raid, are those in-camera jpegs and did you have any manual lens selection
(I'll assume you didn't get it coded) set on the camera body?
Some photos from yesterday's photo walk with the M2. All on original Fuji Acros 100 at 64, developed in the last dregs of my bottle of PMK Pyro. I wanted to get as wide open as possible for a few, but the light was still very good.
I focussed on the lock body - focus perfect at f2. Notice the spiders webs and the bokeh, which is decent.
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Beautiful lens - I couldn't be happier.
Nice work Charles! How do you like the weight/balance of the M2 + 35mm? Here in N America, Acros is only about 2x the cost of Foma. The 200 isn't widely available. Enjoy the new lens!
The weight of the replica Summicron, including shade, is exactly the same as the (steel rim) 35mm Summilux including the Ollux: 245 grams. Now it is clear why Leitz choose to make the lens in aluminium. The replica is certainly not a light weight lens.
Erik.
O, yes, I also like it when things have some weight, but that the weight of the replica is the same as a steel rim Summilux was for me a surprise: the replica is a much smaller lens.
Erik.
Yes, I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of someone throwing that at me. It is dense.
......should we make a comparison vs Summaron 2.8 & Steel-rim Summilux as well? You know 33'/sec/sec ? 😉 completely scientific....