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Subject: [Leica] Summitar and Elmar
From: dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)
Date: Fri Jan 6 12:34:27 2006
References: <a2f8f4470601061218h403f7e4nb19ba2c3f75171e0@mail.gmail.com> <BFE43C8C.A654%bdcolen@comcast.net>

That's a good take on it.

It is with great, but successful, effort that I repress the memory of
the Nikon SP rangefinder that I tried to fix (from about the same
era). I left it with a repairman friend in a shoebox when I left the
states. That shutter spring went: boi-ng

:-)

It's irrational, I know. But what the hell ... I do a lot of this just
for the fun of it so it is at least enjoyable.

Found my charger to the D100. The cemetery shots were with color film
... that was for the birds. Don't have any historical baggage when it
comes to color :-)

Daniel

On 1/6/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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