Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Nathan, Beautiful pictures indeed! I use a collapsible Summitar and Elmar 35 on my M8, they perform great. Question: how do you manage the M8 magenta issue? As far as I know, there are no adaquate LTM filters available. Thanks for your answer. JM I bought a Fotodiox adapter recently for the Minolta lenses I bought in the 70s (50 macro and 24): surprisingly, they are also very sharp and on the whole reliable and sturdy. The only problem I have is to get the focus right since the lenses are SLR lenses. Any clues? Are there adapters that would handle this? Jean-Michel Mertz Strasbourg > From: lluisripollphotography at gmail.com > Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 22:51:51 +0200 > To: lug at leica-users.org > Subject: Re: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 7/10/2014: lens tests > > I love this lens, specially on B&W and photographing people. The pictures > you took are really beautiful, Moon Rising is my favorite. > > Un abrazo > Lluis > > > El 08/10/2014, a las 06:54, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> > escribi?: > > > I got my ?new? 50mm collapsible Summicron from the Leica Shop in Vienna > > last week. The lens is beauty, absolutely impeccable condition for a > > piece of kit from 1953. I forgot of course that it was a screw mount > > lens, so I had to wait a few more days for the Fotodiox LTM-M adapter to > > arrive from Amazon. It did on Monday, so yesterday I finally had a > > chance to do some testing. I am happy to report that the lens performs > > beautifully on the M8. One of the joys of Leica is that you can take two > > pieces of equipment that are 55 years apart and use them together. So > > here are three pictures, the first two with the ?new? Summicron, and the > > third with a 90mm Tele-Elmarit from the mid-1970s, another one of my > > favourite M lenses: > > > > Inhabitant of El Campello harbour: > > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3596330595&k=Qp72L9b&lb=1&s=O > > > > A Guinness on the beach (this is one is at the closest focusing distance > > of 1 meter): > > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3596330761&k=LbvScZr&lb=1&s=O > > > > Moon rising: > > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3596330965&k=jQCjLgh&lb=1&s=O > > > > Cheers, > > Nathan > > > > Nathan Wajsman > > Alicante, Spain > > http://www.frozenlight.eu > > http://www.greatpix.eu > > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator > > YNWA > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information