[Leica] Glazers Seattle has nice used m8

[mak at teleport.com (Mark Kronquist)]

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On Jun 27, 2013, at 4:19 PM, Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> wrote:

> Noted the M8 is a  1.33x not 1.5 crop and that is a difference which  
> is not
> negligible.
>
> Some of my favorite Leica glass is not Leica glass. Its Leitz glass.
> I don't know much about them they tell me they use to make  
> microscopes.
> I got to the point where the lens most on my M6's would be the
> Summicron-C 40mm Leitz. Didn't get the cutting edge brilliant  
> results I
> could certainly see in large fiber darkroom prints. But I was fond  
> of the
> character. And the fact that it was a step down, really, in bulk and  
> weight.
> And with my camera on me all day it made a difference.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Portfolio/lhsawb59xx.jpg.html
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/p4s7mz8
> Less Tylenol.
>
> Got plenty of mileage when I pretty much switched to LTM in 2006  
> with my
> f3.5 Elmar collapsible 50 mm.
> Here it is in dirty dark mirror stoned in the kitchen. I mean  
> bathroom.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Portfolio/071028_083148.jpg.html
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/p2wrkjj
>
> My IIIF done more carefully with same lens.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/Portfolio/061209_160902.jpg.html
>
> When I got my IIIF partly do to the kindness of a friend I soon got  
> a wide
> and tele to make a for me complete package. As that's how I define a
> workable system. A body with a wide and a normal and a tele. In this  
> case no
> flash.
> A Leitz 90mm f4 Elmar and a Leitz 35mm f3.5 Summaron.
> Both with indelible finger prints. Which never washed off even after  
> being
> in the extra dirty setting of my dish washer.
>
> A shot of the Kodak building with my Leitz 90 Elmar
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fallrabs/071009_lhsa_rc_052xx.jpg
> .html
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/o5p6hcn
>
>
>
> On 6/27/13 6:31 PM, "John McMaster" <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:
>
>>> The modern Fuji cropped sensor would blow the old
>>> cropped  sensor of the M8 out of the water.  And need no filtration.
>>
>> Other than a stronger IR filter and bigger sensor, is the M9 much  
>> different to
>> the M8? M8 sensor is still slightly larger than APS-C...
>>
>>> Leica glass is great but a much better sensor gets around that  
>>> advantage.
>>
>> Oh dear, you cannot see a difference in Leica glass to other  
>> manufacturers? A
>> sharp lens is relatively easy to make, but one with character? So  
>> many to
>> choose from, but for me the 28mm Summicron, Noctilux, 75mm Summilux  
>> and older
>> Summilux/Summicron are some of the lenses without peers for  
>> character....
>>
>> john
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Mark William Rabiner
> Photography
>
>
>
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