Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/06

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Subject: [Leica] Summitar and Elmar
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Jan 6 12:26:40 2006

There is something infatuating about the LTMs that I suspect has more to do
with our personal historic association with them than with anything
photographic. It's not unlike the attachment some of us have to certain
early rock and roll/pop music - it may really be a tad mediocre, but we
bundle it up with when we first heard it, who we were with, and what that
time meant to us.

Ah, MTV killed the radio. ;-)


On 1/6/06 3:18 PM, "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh, there's nothing wrong with the Summitar, sorry if I implied it. I
> just happened to see these two on the negatives I was looking at. I
> like it because it can collapse.
> 
> I used it all New Year's Eve wide-open and I don't have any complaints
> at all in those shots.
> 
> But then again, I'm easy to please.
> 
> I am childishly infatuated with the IIIf. Don't know why. Probably
> because I finally got one back after trading one in long, long ago so
> that I could buy Leica M's.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> On 1/6/06, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote:
>> I find it difficult to compare both since they're used in different
>> situations.
>> But the Summitar sure looks good.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Op 6-jan-06, om 20:04 heeft Daniel Ridings het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> These are just two shots I ran off to compare the Summitar and Elmar
>>> that I have for the IIIf. I already know that the Jupiter-8 is a
>>> top-class lens. I ran across a Summitar for a reasonable price (a tad
>>> over 100 USD) that was in near perfect condition, so I couldn't
>>> resist.
>>> 
>>> Summitar
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/iiif/05v52_0001
>>> 
>>> Elmar
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/iiif/05v52_0002
>>> 
>>> Daniel
>>> 
>>> 
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