[Leica] Still using the old lenses

[Lluis Ripoll]

Good defined Jeffery… but quite particular for everyone...

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

Cheers
Lluis






El 22/07/2015, a les 22.16, Jeffery Smith <jsmith342 at gmail.com> va escriure:

> 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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>>>> 
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