Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They used to always say old Leica glass was good as long as you stuck to black and white which is probably what you're doing anyway and I never could wrap my head around that. But I think what they were thinking was that if you were shooting black and white and the thing was lacking contrast you could just use a higher paper grade till it looked well enough. As slides were always a problem of too much contrast I'd think you could have just gone that route as well. Yet they do talk about the coatings having something to do with color. Nowadays you just go into levels and make the thing look good with the histogram cueing you from the background and unsharp the hell out of it if need be. And you can level each channel individually. My first 90 a tele Elmarit looked clean but delivered no contrast. It was mud I tell you! Was almost impossible to print in the darkroom but I should think would not present a problem in digital with all our controls in Photoshop or perhaps Lightroom. On 3/1/15 12:20 PM, "Christopher Williams" <zoeica at mac.com> wrote: > Just the old coating. Shows through more on digital over film. While my old > 50/3.5 Uncoated Elmar was ok on the M8, if I don't use a good with it on > the > M9 it looks like an iPhone 3 image. Chris > Williams www.zoeicaimages.net 504-231-6261 ----- Reply message ----- From: > "kyle cassidy on the lug" <leicaslacker at gmail.com> To: > <lug at leica-users.org> Subject: [Leica] what the heck is going on with this > vintage Leica lens? Date: Sun, Mar 1, 2015 12:11 PM I got a 35mm 3.5 summaron > because it?s relatively small and I thought it could be an OK carry around > in > daylight lens but there?s something crazy going on with it. The lens is > clean > & fungus free. Is this just how the lens behaves or is there something > hinkey > going on? it?s at f3.5 1/500 second. It looks like an instagram > photo. http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2015/vintage-leica.jpg > <http://www.kylecassidy.com/lj/2015/vintage-leica.jpg> ______________________ > _________________________ 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 -- Mark William Rabiner Photographer http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/