Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A nice one, Mark. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 7:03 PM Subject: [Leica] Chicago alley wall peeling paint 135mm f4.5 Hektor > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/chicago+wall+ST.jpg.html > > 135mm f4.5 Hektor I got for 99 bucks Oct/7/2001. > With my first M6 classic. > It was made in the early 50's just like me. > 15-blade diaphragm for the sure verisimilitude of a nice circle of non > confusion. > > I would almost always use it with a very dark green or red filter. > The film was Tri X in Rodinal 1:75 > It was scanned from a fiber 8x10 print made with a 63mm Nikor 2.8. A thing > I > don't have fond feelings about doing much of any more preferring a neg > scan > and re thinking it. > > Yes I had a bit of fun with the new raw filter cs5 doing a duotone with > it. > It was heavily toned as a print but not I don't think these colors. I > think > it was rather cold toned. But bricks are red so there you go. This is how > it > looks this time. > > The head comes off I can use it with my viso and it focuses to infinity. > Also with the bellows if I recall. > > It sure as hell has a Leica fingerprint but at this magnification I'm not > sure if we're really experiencing much of it. More of a fig Newton of our > own imaginations. Do the RGB line up The smart money says no!! > > Ken Lincoln Rockwell has a nice layout on it. I'm not finding any thing > here > I'm disagreeing with. He does this just to confuse us. > http://www.kenrockwell.com/leica/135mm-f45.htm > > He says " This is among the softest lenses I've used." > Yep! But I sure don't shoot it wide open and I'd print it with as much > contrast as I could squeeze out of it and now with unsharp mask it becomes > less of an issue as you could just add on a little more. > But its "Leica fingerprint" would be at one point its blazing non > sharpness. > Its not an APO ASPH. > Its the best 99 bucks I ever spent. > > It has that certain something. > je ne sais quoi > Lens design not at its apex. Which just makes it more fun to use. > > I found the tiny frame lens like a cursor not on my monitor but on the > world. > > The Rabs > > -------------------- > Mark William Rabiner > Photography > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/ > mark at rabinergroup.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >