[Leica] IMG: Back to film!

[j2m46 at hotmail.fr (Jean-Michel Mertz)]

Thank you, Ric. Old and new can function very well together! Jean-Michel
 > From: ricc at embarqmail.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 11:43:50 -0400
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Back to film!
> 
> outstanding
> ric
> 
> 
> On Jul 16, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> 
> > Super portrait!
> > 
> > This is the same lens on a 1954 vintage M3, which was bought with the
> > camera, taken many moons ago:
> > 
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album333/Aditya.jpg.html
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> > 
> > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Jean-Michel Mertz <j2m46 at hotmail.fr> 
> > wrote:
> >> 
> >> I often use the elmar 50 - 2.8 collapsible on my M8, I find it to be a 
> >> very sharp and also soft lens, cf this portrait of my brother in law 
> >> Bernard. Not too good for landscapes, though. 
> >> Jean-Michel<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jean-Michel/PORTRAITS/PORTRAITS.jpg.html>
> >>> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:51:41 -0400
> >>> From: mark at rabinergroup.com
> >>> To: lug at leica-users.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Back to film!
> >>> 
> >>> When my X, Karen who many of you know got her M6 a decade back her 
> >>> choice of
> >>> glass was the modern 50 2.8 Elmar collapsible which she got in 
> >>> "chrome". I
> >>> was very envious of it but now have thanks to a LUG friend a very old 
> >>> 3.5 50
> >>> Elmar collapsible which came with my IIIF. I do feel very Barnack like 
> >>> when
> >>> shooting with it. The results I've gotten with it for me have plenty of
> >>> resonance; glow; fingerprint. Though I have a 3.5 35mm Summaron and a 
> >>> 90
> >>> elmar I only get this feeling when using the 50 which I believe is 
> >>> decades
> >>> older.
> >>> 
> >>> Mark William Rabiner
> >>> Photography
> >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>> From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
> >>>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>>> Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:07:32 -0500
> >>>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Back to film!
> >>>> 
> >>>> George,
> >>>> 
> >>>> I think you will find that the 50mm 2.8 Elmar is the exception to the 
> >>>> rule.
> >>>> It was a modernization and slight improvement on the 50/3.5 Elmar, 
> >>>> and kept
> >>>> the same name.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Jim Nichols
> >>>> Tullahoma, TN USA
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com>
> >>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> >>>> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 2:55 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Back to film!
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> On Jul 14, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Daniel Ridings wrote:
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> Well, I have several of those too, Mark. When I wrote "old" I meant
> >>>>>> the old 50/2.8 not the modern "new" 50/2.8 Elmar. I'd love to have 
> >>>>>> one
> >>>>>> of those. I keep my eyes open every Friday.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I thought 2.8 always = elmarit
> >>>>> no?
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Regards,
> >>>>> George Lottermoser
> >>>>> george at imagist.com
> >>>>> http://www.imagist.com
> >>>>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> >>>>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
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