[Leica] Monday Misc.

[Lluis Ripoll]

Don,

I like very much the Contax series II and III, in fact my first “serious” pictures I took was with my father’s Contax IIIA, the Zeiss lenses are amazing, your Biogon performs very well and the color rendition is wonderful, I had a Sonnar 50mm f 1.5, I was using it on my Leica’s M with an Amedeo adapter, the color rendition was very likely yours, in B&W it offers a lower contrast than the M lenses.

The Contax IIIA was a little difficult to focus, the focus path is very small and the magnification is only 0.66x, the magnification with the Contax II and III is 0.75, much better. I remember that the 50mm f 2 Sonnar was also very good on the Contax.

Thanks for sharing these interesting shots, I hope you will do more.

Best!
Lluis


> El 4 des 2023, a les 12:00, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> va escriure:
> 
> Greetings to all.  Last week we had some discussion about using vintage
> lenses on our digital cameras.  This week I took a walk around the
> neighborhood with a prewar 35mm Zeiss Biogon originally in a Contax mount.
> I did have the lens CLA'd by Harry Scherer maybe 15 years ago while also
> overhauling a Contax II.
> 
> First is an example of only OK performance at infinity:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/extension.jpg.html
> 
> Next is a close image at f2.8:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/got+treats.jpg.html
> 
> Last is an intermediate distance image, this time at f5.6:
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/don_dory_gmail_com/Monday+Misc/turkey+legs+added+to+extend+the+holiday.jpg.html
> 
> If you recall this is the lens whose rear element protrudes so far rearward
> that it is unusable on the postwar Contax line.  There is possibly three
> stops of falloff in the edges on my R V sensor but overall is a fair
> performer and an excellent performer considering no coatings and 86+ years
> old.
> 
> All the best.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Don
> don.dory at gmail.com
> 
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