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Another Old One

Another Old One

Leica M4, 1949 Summitar, Porta:

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robert blu said:
Probably it's a naive question, but did anyone try this lens on a digital body, FF or mirrorless?
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I use it often on my Fuji X-E1 (APS-C) and works wonderfully there,
as the Summaron 35/3.5, Jupiter-12, Jupiter-8, Jupiter-11, Canon 50/1.4...

On the A7, from what I see (here, Flickr, etc) 50mm or longer lenses will be fine and produce very nice results.
Below 50, incl. 40mm, you better check very carefully. Not if they fit but how they look through the A7, I mean.
 
I used a Pleasant Auto-Up Super NOOKY for the Summitar. It is just a close up filter that allows use of the rangefinder. It attaches to the front of the lens with a screw clamp. You can focus from 50cm to 1M with it attached. I think I got it for around $30 US on eBay. I was impressed with the results.

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fer_fdi said:
interesting! Would like to read about what was used exactly.
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wow, wonderful! I'd love to use it! I really miss shooting it closer than 1m...

The Summitar has lovely OOF at close distances. On my X-E1 digital I use an adapter with helicoid and I can get around 30cm close.
I'd love to try at 50cm on my CLE. I wonder if it would work on it, since both viewfinder and rangefinder windows are placed differently re. the center of the lens than on IIIc and similar.

Any measurement of this adapter very welcome, so I can guess if it would work on the CLE.

Thanks for the great picture of it.

Lamar said:
I used a Pleasant Auto-Up Super NOOKY for the Summitar. It is just a close up filter that allows use of the rangefinder. It attaches to the front of the lens with a screw clamp. You can focus from 50cm to 1M with it attached. I think I got it for around $30 US on eBay. I was impressed with the results.
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After following this thread for a while I bought an early Summitar for what I think was a decent price. Mine is the version with the old style sequence of f stops going up to 12. 5. I assume that it is uncoated. I am really impressed with the construction of this lens. The way that it locks I place when you pull it out gives you a much more positive feeling than the 5cm collapsible Elmar that I have been using.

I have it mounted on my IIIa, loaded with a short roll of Eastman Plus-X (5231). I will post results when I finish the test roll.
 
I've had my Summitar for 12 years...bought it originally in a camera shop in Mexico City. Later dropped it from a couch onto the carpet and got the dreaded separation in the front two elements (common problem). This winter I went out with it in subzero weather and the separation crystallized. Still performs flawlessly. It's a lens I'll never part with and never repair.

https://flic.kr/p/c66c17
 
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