[Leica] Still using the old lenses

[Jeffery Smith]

I only have a few “old” Leica lenses:

50/3.5 Elmar
50/2 Summitar collapsible
50/1.5 Summarit
35/2.8 Summaron

and a few old other brands in LTM mount:

50/1.4 Nikkor
50/1.5 Sonnar
50/2 Canon
50/1.2 Canon

I suppose I consider “old” to be anything manufactured before I reached puberty.

Jeffery




> On Jul 22, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollphotography at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As many as you know I love the old lenses but for this topic we should maybe define what we understand for a old lens. I’ve found many times that what a young person says is it is old … i.e. a smartphone 2 years old…, it’s not old for us.
> 
> “It is always in the imperfect of the objective that he conjugates the verb to photograph”, Robert Doisneau/Jacques Prévert 1957
> 
> Maybe we shall focus this discussion about perfection vs imperfection?
> 
> When I’m using my Summilux 75 or 50 vs2 or 35 pre asph … I don’ have at all the sense to are using an old lens, it’s different when I’m using my Summitar, or my beloved Summicron Collapsible and Rigid.
> 
> I never hear talk about glamour, meanwhile there are coming to the market new fans of the Petzval lenses 
> 
> Just some of my thoughts when I have more time for share
> 
> Cheers
> Lluis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> El 22/07/2015, a les 21.47, CJ andS <csaganich at gmail.com> va escriure:
> 
>> Hari Hari - and you can get free breakfast and lunch at their place on
>> Schermerhorn Street.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:15 PM, <j2m46 at hotmail.fr> wrote:
>> 
>>> I use my minolta rokkor lenses (50 macro and 24) on my M8 with a fotodiox
>>> adapter. Got to stop down to f16. Needs a bright day... I just bought a
>>> Fuji xe-1... and another adapter: these classic minolta lenses are doing à
>>> great job thanks to focus peaking and other marvels !
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Envoyé par Outlook pour Android
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 6:59 AM -0700, "Peter Dzwig" <
>>> pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
>>> Great shot. I have several Minolta lenses that I would love to use on my
>>> screw
>>> mounts but there isn't an adapter to either LTM or M. Used to love my SRT
>>> 101.
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> On 21/07/2015 21:44, Roger Rubin wrote:
>>>> No matter what I have I still gravitate to the old lenses. This was a
>>> 40mm
>>>> f2 (80mm efl) M mount Rokkor which came from my Minolta CLE. It was and
>>>> still is a great lens. Imaged with a G1X using Raw+JPG- Developed in
>>>> Silkypix- because I still can't get images to load into Lightroom.
>>> -Bests:
>>>> vroger
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/Hkrishna-woman-union-sq-nyc/50770143_mTrgd7#!i=4220238420&k=dVh6Mwp&lb=1&s=X2
>>>> 
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>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
>>> ===========================================================
>>> Dr Peter Dzwig
>>> 
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