[Leica] Nathan's PAD 7/10/2014: lens tests

[Nathan Wajsman]

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
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