Leica LTM Pics from 35mm Summaron?

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Very nice shots, Erik. So much do I like the Summaron 3.5 that I own two, the only lens I have ever duplicated (and this coming from somebody who doesn't actually have a lot of gear). These shots, and mfogiel's train shot earlier in this thread, remind me why.
 
From my long gone LTM Summaron:

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Tri-X (certainly pushed to 800 ASA) and Canon 7.
 
sebastel said:
didn't use my summaron for a while.

however, i wonder about the polypan - as far as i recall, it hasn't been available for even longer. do you still have a fridge full of it?
or where do you get it from?
;-)
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I wish I had two fridges full! I have one 90m roll left that I aquired (not cheap) in a german forum.
The previous roll was given to me by the RFF member haempe.
One 90m roll is on sale in the bay for 200,-Euro - well, I love Polypan, but I need both kidneys.
I use it thrifty and hope for the best.
 
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Leica IIf, HP5+ exposed as 200, developed in D-76 1+3
Slowly learning how to develop at home.
 
Got this 3.5cm f3.5 Summaron from a fellow forum member quite a while back but it had pretty severe haze. Took it apart to clean but all the aperture blades fell out and I just wasn't in the mood to put them back so all the parts went into a plastic bag where they remained till a few days ago. Well, everything cleaned up nicely and the aperture blades went back without too much fuss.

This is literally my first photo with the lens.

Kinda hard to see, but this is a group of young boys throwing rocks at an alligator in the water with them. It's the tiny dark speck on the far left of the screen indicated by an arrow. Welcome to Louisiana!

There's a bridge on the horizon. I was surprised to see all the fine details rendered well, even to the edges of the frame and this was only stopped down to f5.6. I'm not usually a pixel peeper but I am curious to know what gear is capable of before I start using it. This lens is remarkable for something so small and portable.
L1000914 bw by Brusby, on Flickr
 
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These were all shot with the 35mm f3.5 Summaron on a Leica IIIf. The B&W shots were done on Kodak Tmax 400 and the color one on Portra 400. This is a wonderful, tiny lens that works perfectly on the tiny screwmount Leica bodies. They made this in M-mount, and the LTM version can be used with an adapter on M-mount bodies, but its a little harder to handle on the larger cameras.

Stopped down to f8, it is tack sharp all the way to the corners. At wider apertures, it is sharp in the center and soft in the corners.
 
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