Some Pics with a Summar

[xcapekey]

the bastard 50mm lens in the leica line actually takes great pics as well...i think i've discovered "the glow" and its hiding in the old optics 🙂

 

[RubenBlaedel]

nice! - was summar not a very early leitz patent - 191? - never thaught of it as a bastard lens - did yu have it on a ltm or M ? Cheers Ruben

 

[xcapekey]

well...bastard insofar as it gets often passed up for summicrons, summiluxes, summarits, etc.,

it is early...i think manufacturing begain in the 30s? (1936?)...the one i have is a loaner and i'm shooting it on an M2 with the LTM adaptor..but i am hunting for a user iiic or f....(see my wanting to trade my g3 thread 🙂

 

[rover]

You know, I have a thing for 50s and I really don't need another...

do I?

 

[ray_g]

Need? You know you WANT it, rover 😉

 

[doubs43]

You know, I have a thing for 50s and I really don't need another...

do I?

Rover, if "need" became my criteria for buying another camera, lens etc., I could pretty well forget about buying anything else for awhile....... a LONG while! I'm content to accept "want" as the operative word. 😀

Walker

 

[FrankS]

I would buy a Summar if one came along at a good price. I had one years ago and took the attached picture with it. It has the Leica glow (that those less charitable would call flare.) It is a perfect lens for dreamy atmospheric shots of lovely nude women. (My old dog was a lovely lady.)

 

[xcapekey]

the summar i have is a loaner...i'm going to give it back when i receive the summitar i won from ebay (hopefully tommorrow)..hoping it will have the same glowiness that the summar has 🙂

anyone here shoot with a summitar? how do you like it?

 

[MCTuomey]

Frank, I see what you mean. There is an otherworldly character to that shot, as if it surfaced from memory, not a negative.

 

[FrankS]

Thanks Mike, and it's a crumby scan - you should see the print. So what Leica M did you get yourself into?

 

[MCTuomey]

I bought an M4 off photo.net, Frank. It's embarrassing, in a way. I mean, I'm new to RFs, at least in this decade. Had some extra money and jumped on it. Not a deserving thing. But I felt the need to revert to meterless manual. Now it's my eyes, my M, and a little Sekonic in my pocket ...

 

[FrankS]

Good on you, Mike!

 

[RubenBlaedel]

there is a summar and a summitar going in 16 hours - I got a Minox B once from this guy and it was a fine transaction :

summar:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7511167173&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEBI:IT&rd=1

summitar:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7511169676&rd=1&sspagename=STRK:MEBI:IT&rd=1

 

[MCTuomey]

Thanks, Frank, for the encouragement. I'll post something this weekend to the gallery. I've got a lot of learning and relearning to do ...