[Leica] Summitar and Elmar

[dlridings at gmail.com (Daniel Ridings)]

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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