Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/07/16

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Back to film!
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:04:31 +0530
References: <79E8CEB808BF436C8EED56D7912954FB@jimnichols> <CC27541D.21219%mark@rabinergroup.com> <BLU155-W26B3026B59F2F66588DC988DD40@phx.gbl>

Super portrait!

This is the same lens on a 1954 vintage M3, which was bought with the
camera, taken many moons ago:

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/album333/Aditya.jpg.html

Cheers
Jayanand

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Jean-Michel Mertz <j2m46 at hotmail.fr> 
wrote:
>
> I often use the elmar 50 - 2.8 collapsible on my M8, I find it to be a 
> very sharp and also soft lens, cf this portrait of my brother in law 
> Bernard. Not too good for landscapes, though. 
> Jean-Michel<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Jean-Michel/PORTRAITS/PORTRAITS.jpg.html>
>  > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:51:41 -0400
>> From: mark at rabinergroup.com
>> To: lug at leica-users.org
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Back to film!
>>
>> When my X, Karen who many of you know got her M6 a decade back her choice 
>> of
>> glass was the modern 50 2.8 Elmar collapsible which she got in "chrome". I
>> was very envious of it but now have thanks to a LUG friend a very old 3.5 
>> 50
>> Elmar collapsible which came with my IIIF. I do feel very Barnack like 
>> when
>> shooting with it. The results I've gotten with it for me have plenty of
>> resonance; glow; fingerprint. Though I have a 3.5 35mm Summaron and a 90
>> elmar I only get this feeling when using the 50 which I believe is decades
>> older.
>>
>> Mark William Rabiner
>> Photography
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/
>>
>>
>> > From: Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net>
>> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> > Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:07:32 -0500
>> > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Back to film!
>> >
>> > George,
>> >
>> > I think you will find that the 50mm 2.8 Elmar is the exception to the 
>> > rule.
>> > It was a modernization and slight improvement on the 50/3.5 Elmar, and 
>> > kept
>> > the same name.
>> >
>> > Jim Nichols
>> > Tullahoma, TN USA
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "George Lottermoser" <imagist3 at mac.com>
>> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
>> > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2012 2:55 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Back to film!
>> >
>> >
>> >>
>> >> On Jul 14, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Daniel Ridings wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Well, I have several of those too, Mark. When I wrote "old" I meant
>> >>> the old 50/2.8 not the modern "new" 50/2.8 Elmar. I'd love to have one
>> >>> of those. I keep my eyes open every Friday.
>> >>
>> >> I thought 2.8 always = elmarit
>> >> no?
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> George Lottermoser
>> >> george at imagist.com
>> >> http://www.imagist.com
>> >> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> >> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
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