Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/03/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Lluis, Thank you verry much for your interesting informations and personnal remarks. Comments from a photographer who has a good experience in the field is most important to me. Over the years I had several Summilux's 35mm M to test but was not alway satisfied with the results, having a verry good Summicron 35mm M (made about 1972-1973) and a Summaron 35 f:2.8 M. I know these 2 well because I enlarged a lot of pictures in B&W and color myself up to format 30X40 cm with both my Focomat IC and IIC. In my opinion both lenses are equal at the same openings, except f/2 of course. When I made this remark to a good old friend at Leitz Wetzlar at the time he smiled largely and agreed discreetly. So recently I received this Sumilux 35mm M I mentionned. I know this lens perfectly because my friend took most of the 35 mm pictures of ou marriage with it. I personally teached him color photography and chemistry in his personnal darkroom. I never saw any difference with my own Summicron, be it in B&W or color. He showed me several pictures taken with this lens with Kodachrome in low light in an obscure cathedral. Simply razor sharp so to say. I made no mistake in buying this lens. When he bought himself the latest Apo Summilux 35mm M he was so enthousiastic with the results he gave me his own Summilux 35mm M. I will never regret it. First results with my M-9 look excellent both in B&W and color. Thank you again and kind regards, Cedric 2013/3/21 Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>: > Hi Cedric, > > According to the S/N my lens was made in 1983. I like very much this lens, > with film (B&W) it gave me very rich range of grey with very nice smooth > contrast, at f 1.4 is not a very sharp and contrasted lens, but for me it > does his job, I like too that it is very small. Compared with the > Summicron 35 (IV) this one is more sharp and contrasted, it is also a lens > I like very much. With the M8 the Lux 35 perform particularly well, it is > the usual lens I have always attached. I'm not a technical man in the > sense that I don't take care about many technical concepts, what I'm > interested is how the lens shows the atmosphere I like in my pictures. If > I compare it with the Summilux 50 (year 1967) the 50 is better wide open > or at high apertures, it is more "crispy". > > Probably every one of us has different motivations to find with a lens, > for my own use I'm very happy with my older lenses > > Thanks for looking ad for your kind comment! > > Cheers > Lluis > > > El 21/03/2013, a las 11:20, Cedric Agie escribi?: > >> I like your color and B&W pictures Lluis. I noticed you used a pre >> Asph Summi 35 M wide open. >> Could you tell me when it was made (probably according to its serial n?)? >> I have one myself. It's one of the first that is in pristine condition >> and that gives perfect pictures. >> And since differend series were made in the pre Asph era I'm much >> interested by the results you got and the experience you have with it. >> According to a good Leica relation I heard not all Summis were always >> equal. Older Pros gladly accepted the Summi 35 M but didn't really >> trust the one in 50mm. >> >> Regards >> >> Cedric >> >> 013/3/21 Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollquerol at gmail.com>: >>> Thank you Jim, I think so but on these cases I wait sometime to decide >>> >>> Cheers >>> Lluis >>> >>> >>> El 21/03/2013, a las 00:44, Jim Nichols escribi?: >>> >>>> Lluis, >>>> >>>> Nice work. I have to pick the color image in this case. >>>> >>>> Jim Nichols >>>> Tullahoma, TN USA >>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lluis Ripoll" <lluisripollquerol at >>>> gmail.com> >>>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> >>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 5:43 PM >>>> Subject: [Leica] From today >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> First all my apologies to different messages about Barcelona, we have >>>>> at home our grandchildren, this is a really joy, but also it is >>>>> difficult have free time. >>>>> >>>>> Shoot today, initially I was sure about the color version, once I've >>>>> do the conversion to B&W I like both, for this reason I share both. >>>>> >>>>> Color >>>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1030560.jpg.html> >>>>> >>>>> B&W (conversion with Silver Efex Pro 2) >>>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/Barcelona/L1030560BN.jpg.html> >>>>> >>>>> Leica M8, Summilux 35 pre asph Wide Open >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for looking, your c&c are welcome, >>>>> >>>>> Saludos cordiales >>>>> Lluis >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information