Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Joe, Marc, remember? - There has been a thread on old and young MF lenses (and corresponding techniques) in Oct or Nov 97, which produce MF pictures like taken with an MF Leica lens. If I estimate correct, it must be somewhere in the end of Volume 1 of the Leica digest. Although not exactly the subject, the trhead revealed a lot of valuable information in this context. Specially pround was Leitz on the 2/50 Summar with it's pronounced "Leica glow", which is documented in several of the 1935-1939 bookletts and books. Alf - ------------- At 11:02 20.03.1998 -0500, Marc wrote: >At 06:02 AM 3/20/98, Joe Berenbaum wrote: >>I was wondering, since there were Nagel folders made in the 1930s with >>Leitz Elmars, does anyone know anything about the optical qualities of >>these lenses? I'm mostly curious to know if the results were any different >>from the equivalent Tessars of the same period. I gather that they are a >>similar formula- so are these early medium format Elmars at all likely to >>have anything of the Leica look? It is intriguing to me to wonder if I >>could get a medium format folder to give Leica look pictures- but maybe >>there wasn't a Leica look at all then. >And that brings me to the second point. The 'Leica Glow' dates from the >Prewar era, when Leitz could not afford to produce lenses optically >competitive with those from Zeiss and Voigtlander. - --- snip > The result >is a final image where the in-focus image sort of 'pops out' of the >picture. - --- snip >I do NOT want to stir up "Bokeh" threads galore, but there could not >possible be a nexus between an optical trick of the '30's and what Leica is >making today. - -------------------------------------------------- http://members.aol.com/abreull/index.htm