[Leica] Don's PAW Summarit explorations

[don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)]

Ted,
Thank you for taking the time to comment. I will certainly take a few more
walks in 30's parts of town on foggy days. :)
 Don
don.dory@gamil.com

 On 11/1/05, Ted Grant <tedgrant@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Don Dory showed teh Summarit Leica glow.: :-)
> Subject: [Leica] Don's PAW Summarit explorations
>
>
> Greetings again. Last week I played around with a Summarit at F1.5. This
> lens does indeed provide that famous Leica "Glow". For some situations
> this
> lens has a unique signature very hard to replicat in PS and certainly not
> to
> everyones taste.
> First up is a window portrait of my daughter. This is a little less than
> half the negative as the original showed far more of the window in a
> landscape mode.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album167/VMARYWINDOWSMILINGPRINTADJU
> Second is a gray day shot with room to show the Summarit's unique
> signature
> in background detail at wider apertures.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album167/marybench
> Last for today is a shot taken while waiting at the airport. No stealth,
> just pick up the camera and shoot.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/album167/waitinginlove<<<<
>
> Hi Don,
> As much as I like these with the Summarit creating a feeling I should make
> use of mine more often, unfortunately I'm selling a complete Leica Red
> Dial
> lllf kit with 1.5 Summarit, a 35mm and 135 mm lenses along with other
> close-up and various other like new bits and pieces including an un-marked
> fine leather case to carry camera with auxiliary viewfinder and all other
> bits and pieces.
>
> Now when I see the results from your Summarit exposures I'm now tempted to
> shoot with mine on an M7 using adapter and do some fun shooting rather
> than
> "assignment related." As some hobby like stuff. ;-)
>
> However the gear is pretty well committed to someone who'll give it a good
> home ;-) while making good use of it. Besides I'll have another of my old
> camera stuff gone. A couple more Leica's, 1932 for one with a couple of
> Russian copies, Leica and Contax. But that's for later this month when
> many
> things will be listed on a Friday.
>
> However the Summarit does produce that Leica glow certainly if you use it
> under similar lighting conditions of times gone by when Leica was king of
> Kings of cameras in it's hey day. I'd like to see images of really old
> buildings, circ early 30's, moody light and or early evenings with a
> little
> light left in the sky and street lights on. Oh maybe a tad bit of fog
> might
> help! ;-)
>
> Some what in the form of early Atget works.;-) That mood stuff no matter
> what cameras he and others of that era used.
>
> The shot of your daughter in the widow is intriguing in that I would've
> liked to see a fuller use of the neg, rather than crop it from a little
> less
> than half the frame. This doesn't mean I don't like it, it's "the glow"
> maybe a tad too much.;-)
>
> But then we become spoiled by the sharp cutting contrasts of modern day
> glass and quite often the visual value of the "Leica glo" is lost due to
> our
> vision of today's "snappy colours and contrasts" cut by new Leica glass.
>
> Thanks for posting as I think it's good for folks to see what can be done
> with old lenses as pictures don't always have to be as sharp and crispy
> and
> finger cutting sharp and moodless as we see many today.
>
> The important thing is knowing when to make the "Glo" work in a photograph
> and when not to, as it doesn't work every time. But in the right scene it
> creates such a wonderful visual effect that's just as much a learning
> thing
> for success as making the correct exposure.Which I feel you've done here.
>
> One last point; The couple in the airport.... just a neat life moment
> photo!:) Basically... "SEE-SHOOT!" No screwing around deciding exposure
> compensation or other techie things so many allow themselves to become
> trapped into with bloody details or taking for ages to focus.
>
> The success of these type of photographs is the ability of photographer to
> "SEE and REACT" all in one motion. As you say...>>" No stealth, just pick
> up
> the camera and shoot!"<<< Good on you for a well captured life's moment in
> airport fun.;-)
> ted
>
>
>
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