[Leica] 13 sample portraits using my Elmar 90 f/4 LTM on a IIIf

[Frank Filippone]

You would not get this "look" with the present 90, any of them designed in the past 20 or so years......

Today's lenses are engineered to be SHARP, CRISP, HIGH CONTRAST.

Katy is none of these.  ( old 90 ELmar)

Stay with what you like.


Frank Filippone
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On 7/18/2021 1:51 PM, Jeffery Smith via LUG wrote:
> Brian,
>
> Thank you so much for finding these photos. I like the Strawberry Lady, and I think your cousin Katy shows exactly what I'm hoping for in a portrait lens like this. The reflections in Katy's eyes are sharp as a razor, and the background OOF very fluffy. Love the Schlitz beer (I liked Schlitz...as I recall, they hired a new brewmaster, his beer wouldn't produce a head, so they plunged into bankruptcy). Father and Bob Braunstein are also sharp around the eyes.
>
> Thanks again. It looks like I lucked out with this one. I hope my results can approach what you have taken, even 49 years ago (when I was 22, I would have been too intimidated to photograph the Strawberry Lady).
>
> Jeffery
>
>
>> On Jul 18, 2021, at 3:50 PM, Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us> wrote:
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>> I poked around and found 13 pictures that I am certain were taken with my Elmar 90 f/4.
>> I almost always shot it wide open, but I never wrote that kind of information down so I can't be sure.
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/elmar90f4/
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>> Most of these pictures are from a trip I took to Paris in the summer of 1972. This is because on that trip, I had only the Elmar 90 and a 35 with me, and obviously none of these was taken with a 35. So I didn't have to stop and ponder what lens I had used.
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>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/bkreid/elmar90f4/
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>> All Tri-X at ASA400 (the ISO wasn't created for at least another 10 years after these pictures were taken). Developed in HC-110 and scanned on a Nikon LS-4000.
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>> It is unusual for me to post pictures of anything but my grandchildren, but I have done other stuff, too....
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>> I tracked down the parents of the two boys shown in picture #7 and sent them each an 8x10 print. Back then it was common to use US paper sizes for European frames, but a decade later it was all A4.
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