p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
This looks great Erik.
This looks great Erik.
gelatin silver print (planar 45mm f2) contax g1
https://www.flickr.com/photos/erik_v...95709/sizes/l/
Erik.
I am not really using the lens, although I've made some nice pictures with it. It is a beautiful lens, incredible good.
Now knowing that you've used this lens I feel deprived for not having seen a single picture you've taken with it. I've never known you to shoot something so wide. In fact, the widest lens I've seen you shoot with was one of your portraits of W.F. Hermans, and even then I recall you saying the 21mm Elmarit was borrowed from him. Aside from that I've only seen a handful of pictures shot with a 28mm either with your Nikon from your time in London or with the Contax. You very much tend to stick in the 35-50mm range.
Would you be so kind as to share some of your pictures taken with the 16mm Hologon? I'm extremely curious to see what you can do with such a wide lens.
Using the 45/2 on any m4/3 camera gives a 90mm crop with incredibly sharp center. I had a blast with it one trip.
My 45/2 was adapted by someone to M mount with RF functioning. I bought it already in M mount. I kept my G mount 45/2 too. There are online sales of adapters of G lenses to M 4/3.
Hap, thanks for the tip!
Erik.
Off topic from Contax G bodies and lenses, but I recently found that people such as MS Optics and a gentleman in Manchester called Ellis have adapted the Yashica Electro 35 lens onto Leica M. I’ve never shot with a Yashica 35, but the lens looks gorgeous. Hamish Gill of 35mmc had Ellis lend him one of the rehoused Yashica lenses and wrote an article about it. You may be interested:
https://www.35mmc.com/05/11/2017/lei...5mm-f1-7-lens/
Hap, thanks for the tip!
Erik.