Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Jean-Michel. I had a spare E39 UV/IR filter, and it fits just fine on the Summicron. I do not know anything about the issues around the SLR lenses, sorry. Cheers, Nathan On 9 Oct 2014, at 14:21, Jean-Michel Mertz <j2m46 at hotmail.fr> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > Beautiful pictures indeed! I use a collapsible Summitar and Elmar 35 on my > M8, they perform great. Question: how do you manage the M8 magenta issue? > As far as I know, there are no adaquate LTM filters available. Thanks for > your answer. > JM > I bought a Fotodiox adapter recently for the Minolta lenses I bought in > the 70s (50 macro and 24): surprisingly, they are also very sharp and on > the whole reliable and sturdy. The only problem I have is to get the focus > right since the lenses are SLR lenses. Any clues? Are there adapters that > would handle this? > > > Jean-Michel Mertz > Strasbourg > > >> From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com >> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 22:51:51 +0200 >> To: lug at leica-users.org >> Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 7/10/2014: lens tests >> >> I love this lens, specially on B&W and photographing people. The pictures >> you took are really beautiful, Moon Rising is my favorite. >> >> Un abrazo >> Lluis >> >> >> El 08/10/2014, a las 06:54, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >> escribi?: >> >>> I got my ?new? 50mm collapsible Summicron from the Leica Shop in Vienna >>> last week. The lens is beauty, absolutely impeccable condition for a >>> piece of kit from 1953. I forgot of course that it was a screw mount >>> lens, so I had to wait a few more days for the Fotodiox LTM-M adapter to >>> arrive from Amazon. It did on Monday, so yesterday I finally had a >>> chance to do some testing. I am happy to report that the lens performs >>> beautifully on the M8. One of the joys of Leica is that you can take two >>> pieces of equipment that are 55 years apart and use them together. So >>> here are three pictures, the first two with the ?new? Summicron, and the >>> third with a 90mm Tele-Elmarit from the mid-1970s, another one of my >>> favourite M lenses: >>> >>> Inhabitant of El Campello harbour: >>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3596330595&k=Qp72L9b&lb=1&s=O >>> >>> A Guinness on the beach (this is one is at the closest focusing distance >>> of 1 meter): >>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3596330761&k=LbvScZr&lb=1&s=O >>> >>> Moon rising: >>> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3596330965&k=jQCjLgh&lb=1&s=O >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Nathan >>> >>> Nathan Wajsman >>> Alicante, Spain >>> http://www.frozenlight.eu >>> http://www.greatpix.eu >>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >>> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator >>> YNWA >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 > Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Image licensing: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman Blog: http://www.nathansmusings.eu/