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Subject: [Leica] Summitar and Elmar
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Fri Jan 6 14:24:46 2006

Killer camera. And, btw, that second row shot is fabulous.


On 1/6/06 3:54 PM, "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:

> It was a beauty, no doubt about it. I have two shots up on my site with it:
> 
> Middle shot, first row and lone shot on the second row. Downtown St.
> Louis in the 70'ies.
> 
> http://www.dlridings.com/stlouis.htm
> 
> Maybe that's kind of why I've been attracted by the Kiev (Contax)
> lately. Repressed, but not totally :-)
> 
> Daniel
> 
> On 1/6/06, B. D. Colen <bdcolen@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Ah, an SP - A camera I've never known and always lusted after, perhaps
>> irrationally. Of course I've long believed that if Nikon had stayed in the
>> rangefinder game, continually updating the SP, Leica would have died 
>> decades
>> ago, because at one point virtually every working photographer would have
>> paired Fs and SPs.
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/6/06 3:34 PM, "Daniel Ridings" <dlridings@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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