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I was musing on the experience of using a borrowed Summarit 50 f 2.5 for an hour or so .
There is no doubt that it was the finest lense which I have never owned in respect of sharpness and that sparkle in monochrome .
I wanted one , well , I still want one ...
But .. I took my delicate , rare-ish [ one of three I had restored ] 1951 Rigid I 22 out on a black and white dee'scovery course around town ... and it's such a lovely lense ... it's not that '' sharp '' it's not that contrasty ... but it has that creamy feel to it ... in black and white , it looks real somehow ...
But it's not only that ... crazy maybe , but I love the thought that I am out and about finding lovely images with a lense designed before the war and knowing it was around in the infancy of those fancy 1970s SLRS , I grew up with .
The M 8 , with all it's sophistication , almost uniquely allows me this translation from one era , into the digital age .
My Leica DIg 3 also permits 1951 /1954 I 22s and a lovely mint black I 50 with neat lense hood , from those tiny Zenits to bring one time forward into the present .
Both cameras complement those early borrowed-from- Leica treasured lenses in their unique traditional handling ... that one truonces the other on pixels and definition , matters not a jot - the dee-light remains the same .
Ok , I love that vintage look ... but I love it that a mass produced £10 / £20 lense can create lovely images in this technology centred age .
There is no doubt that it was the finest lense which I have never owned in respect of sharpness and that sparkle in monochrome .
I wanted one , well , I still want one ...
But .. I took my delicate , rare-ish [ one of three I had restored ] 1951 Rigid I 22 out on a black and white dee'scovery course around town ... and it's such a lovely lense ... it's not that '' sharp '' it's not that contrasty ... but it has that creamy feel to it ... in black and white , it looks real somehow ...
But it's not only that ... crazy maybe , but I love the thought that I am out and about finding lovely images with a lense designed before the war and knowing it was around in the infancy of those fancy 1970s SLRS , I grew up with .
The M 8 , with all it's sophistication , almost uniquely allows me this translation from one era , into the digital age .
My Leica DIg 3 also permits 1951 /1954 I 22s and a lovely mint black I 50 with neat lense hood , from those tiny Zenits to bring one time forward into the present .
Both cameras complement those early borrowed-from- Leica treasured lenses in their unique traditional handling ... that one truonces the other on pixels and definition , matters not a jot - the dee-light remains the same .
Ok , I love that vintage look ... but I love it that a mass produced £10 / £20 lense can create lovely images in this technology centred age .