Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. - ------_=_NextPart_000_01BF795D.A7AF56CE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, I'm a newbie to the lug and I've been subscribing for a couple of months. My name is Jim Gumm, I'm from OKC, and I'm a commercial photographer and photography is pretty much my life. I just picked up a black M4 ser # 1185xxx! Its a little battered and brassed and could use a cla, and I've been thinking about trading/selling it, any one interested, e-mail me privately. Regarding the lens scratches on a summarit 50, I've used several and one of the had scratchs (cleaning marks) on a inner element. A former repaiman had overly cleaned it to the point that the coating was almost gone. It was still a good as the others. They are soft wide open, but @ 5.6 it had a beautiful gradation of tones and made nice enlargements. I've always thought that wide angles are more problematic with rear scratches and tele's with scratches on the front. A friend had a Super-Angulon f 4 that had a rear scratch from the rangefinder roller and it showed up at every stop but f 4. I've owned a 105 nikkor 2.5 that had a inch long scratch on the rear element that didn't affect the picture, it was still a super sharp lens. BTW, I used to shoot all chrome and B+W and in my darkroom I would make an 8x10 or 11x14 to distinguish the qualities and differences between lenses. Now (Due to circumstances beyond my control), most of my work is color negs. enlarged to 4x6 by a pro-lab. I believe that lens or image quality cannot properly be judged by looking at a 4x6 print! I have a friend who is trying to evaluate 6 400mm vintage lenses, 4 Kilfitts (one APO) a ENNA f4.5 and a novoflex f5.6. All 4x6' prints were so close in quality that we couldn't tell one from the other. If all a person does is shoot color negs and enlarge to 4x6, they could use almost any lens and camera and get good results.Photographs need to be enlarged at least to a 8x10 or so to judge. Anyways, thanks for your time. 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