Leica LTM Recommend me LTM line up for my M8

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Ok, now I consider my line up for my M8 complete. 24Elmarit/35 UC Hexanon/50 M Hex/ 75 Summicron. Perhaps I will add 15 super heliar in the future. So far I am happy with the pics taken with this line up. However, I feel those lenses give me more modern look due to their modern design.

I am still looking for "vintage/classic" look as the alternatives. Really, I don't want to spend time to convert my modern images through Photoshop or Lightroom. I am thinking to buy a whole line up of LTM lenses that will fit my needs, those with strong classic/leica glow/vintage look preferably for BW pictures and less contrasty. Somewhat I need a less contrast lenses for typical daylight in tropical country like in Indonesia where I live. I have already the 35 UC Hex but I still feel this lens give me a modern look images.

Please recommend me which LTM lenses for my purpose, from wide angle up to 85mm focal length.

Thanks
 
Don't know why you want to do this, but you should be able to do it with:

1. Summaron 35/3.5

2. Elmar 90/4
 
Because of crop factor I would go wider. I recommend 28/2.8 Canon (the "Winogrand lens") and some 50mm Sonnar variant, like Canon 50/1.5 or Nikkor 50/2 or 50/1.4.

Cheers,

Roland.
 
Summar 50/2, but be sure you get a good one.

If you have deep pockets, there's the Hektor or Summaron 28mm lenses, both definitely have a "look". But their prices reflect rarity, not usefulness.
 
I've always wanted to see my uncoated, scratched, fogged, nickle Elmar on a digital camera. It takes cool pictures on color film, a little like the outdoor scenes from Carrie. Cheap too!
 
Lets start going backwards.

Nikkor 105/2.5, world class and pretty available in LTM.

Nikkor 85/2 Black, again world class but harder to find in Black (much lighter than all chrome version).

Nikkor 35/1.8 LTM, hard to find but well worth it for that look I think you are looking for.

At the low cost end of the spectrum you might look for:

Steinhill Munchen (spelling) 85/2.8, interesting lens when you can find a clean one.

Any Komura lenses (28, 35, 50, 85/90, 105, even the 135) are all good and should have an older signature you are looking for.

I love the Nikkor signature, but that is me. There are also older Leica lenses in M and LTM that would work (35/3.5, 90/4) that you can find easily at a reasonable price these days too.

B2 (;->
 
I am still looking for "vintage/classic" look as the alternatives
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If this is what you want, then you shouldn't get the Summaron 35mm 3.5.

This Summaron produces a familiar quality when used on digital (Epson R-D1s in my case)- not vintage but one associated with more modern 'point and shoot' digicams. I've tried two of Epson's 'film settings' as well as raw, and all produced the sort of quality you'd expect to see from one of those compact digicams. See the example attached:

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A Jupiter-12 will do better in making that 'vintage' look.
 
I get a wonderful 'vintage' look when shooting with my 50mm Summitar on an Epson R-D1 – something to do with greater spherical aberration and only medium contrast compared to something modern like a Summicron, allied with very good central sharpness.

The big difference is in colour rendering, which in the Summitar's case is less saturated and relatively warm. It is wonderful with skin tones. However, the effects are very subtle, and nerdish test shots of a boring rectilinear subject (shelf full of oddments in the conservatory) taken with Summitar and gen III Summicron are hard to tell apart – so it's not simply that the Summitar is soft!
 
The Ultimate "vintage look" lens for the M8 is the Nikkor HC f2/50 ~ everything that I shoot with my M8 looks Retro with this lens :) ~ I`ll post some photos soon....

Tom
 
I have and like the 35mm Summaron 1:3.5 and 50mm Elmar red-scale in LTM and are still looking for a 90/4.0 Elmar in chrome. I only shoot film but would be keen to see how that lens setup work with M8 and M9. :)
 
+1 for the Komuras. There were 28, 35 and 80mm lenses. Also sold branded as Kyoei, or Acall. The 105 and 135 are nice, but not on an M8.

Apparently the Komura and Acall lenses were imported into the US by the same importer as the Nikkor lenses in the 1950s and 1960s. At one point they even were in the same catalog.
I like to think Tokyo Kogaku allowed the Komuras to be in the same catalog, but hey, it might just as well be a coincidence :)
 
That's Nippon Kogaku who would have had opinions about what was EPoI's catalog, as they made the Nikon cameras and Nikkor lenses EPoI imported. Tokyo Kogaku made Topcon cameras and Topcor lenses, and were imported by the Charles Beseler Company.

Some of the super-speed Komura's were rather dodgy, but the normal speed ones were respectable lenses, well built.
 
Gentlemen, I have a Summaron 28/5.6 lens which has an infinitive lock, and could not be used with a voigtlander Type II adaptor. Would you please advise which adaptor should I use with this lens so that I can use it on a M camera?

Thanks in advanced.
 
bono0272 said:
Gentlemen, I have a Summaron 28/5.6 lens which has an infinitive lock, and could not be used with a voigtlander Type II adaptor. Would you please advise which adaptor should I use with this lens so that I can use it on a M camera?

Thanks in advanced.
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Use the old Type I or just trim a little on the adapter where the infinity lock is to allow the pin to be depress to disengage the lock.
Like what I did for the Type II adapter on my Hektor28f6.3
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