Some DR-Summicron winter close-ups

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A few very beautiful winter days here in NL drove me to some close-up exercises with my goggled Summicron.
And finally I wanted to try my upload capabilities on this forum. What are the ideal upload dimensions you choose for your photo's? I fiddled around a bit and I hope the results look okay. Anyhow: the 18x24 cm. prints look pleasantly sharp ...


Leica-M2 + Summicron-DR @ about f8
Tri-X in D76 (1:1)
Minolta Dimâge Scan Dual-II


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Thanks!

Erwin Puts says 48 cm. and that's it about. I've read somewhere that early DR's go a little bit closer (45 cm.?), but I'm not sure as I have a later example.

I am wondering what image size / resolution / jpg-compression ratio works best for publishing photo's on this forum within the image size limits. I've been puzzling a bit with these parameters and couldn't find out what was best. I'm curious to your suggestions.
 
Mudman said:
what do you mean by goggled? I've heard it said before, but don't have any experience with it.
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DR-Summicrons come with a separate set of glasses which you can slide on the lens top, to correct the range finder measurement and image frame when focussing closer than 1 meter.
It 's a bit of a procedure: pull the distance setting ring over a 'stop' between 1 meter and 0,9 meter --> it will block --> put the 'reading-glasses' on top of the lens (which unlocks the distance ring) and adjust focussing any further on the second, low-distance scale up to 48 cm.
Afterwards: reset distance to 0,9 meter, remove the goggles, pull the distance ring over the stopper and it can be used for the regular 1 meter to inf. scale again.

A bit cumbersome, but distance setting and framing are spot-on and I am quite surprised bij the DR's close-up performance.
 
Erik, while I set my uploaded pics to 72ppi, that's probably irrelevant... pixel size may be up to 800 pixels on the long side, and you might consider what will easily fit most people's browser window without scrolling. Just use your graphic software to scale-down proportionally to the pixel dimensions you want, using the "save for web" option or similar, jpeg format. Adjust jpeg compression so the file is under 300k for the convenience of those with slower web connections; I stay under 150k. When we want to display detail sharpness, we'll use a "100% crop", that is a small section cropped out of the full-res scan.
 
What Doug said.

Going from normal to close focusing with the goggles is easier done than typed. In other words, you can do it faster than you can say it. It's really a piece of cake.

For the metric challenged, the min. distance is 19" or 20" depending on version. I say that advisedly. The fosusing ring markings on my late version stop at 21" & 0.5m but the ring turns well past 0.5m.
 
You must have the earlier model. My focus index ends up past 0.5. About halfway between the words feet and ins. I guess a tape measure would be the way to know for sure.
 
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