Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]love peeping your pixels ;~) Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Jul 16, 2009, at 9:54 AM, wildlightphoto at earthlink.net wrote: > Yesterday, Frank Filippone showed us: > >> http://hawkman.smugmug.com/gallery/1415006_GutQR#453974282_UCNaH >> >> I only wish they were mine....... >> >> Amazing what you can do with other than Leica brands of optics..... > > Considering the Canon lens used to make these photos sells for a > little > under US$6000 at B&H, you'd hope it would perform well. So... how > does the > antique (1971) Leitz 560mm f/6.8 Telyt compare? > > I have two copies of the 560 Telyt, the first I purchased about 25 > years > ago, the second was given to me in poor condition a few months ago, > covered > with crumbling camo tape, the focus guide rails about to break through > their retaining ring, and dings on the front glass surface. I > removed the > camo tape & cleaned up the gummy residue and Don Goldberg fixed the > focusing issues, but there's not much anyone can do about the dings > in the > glass. > > I've posted a few photos the list has already seen, made with the > beater > 560, including these: > > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/threskiornithidae/wfib01.html > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/turdidae/mobl06.html > http://wildlightphoto.com/birds/paridae/moch03.html > > All of these are cropped considerably, and out of curiosity I made > some > 100% crops of a couple of them with a bit of USM, as was done with the > photos Frank pointed us to yesterday (I made no attempt to reduce > noise) : > > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/wfib01crop1.jpg > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/wfib01crop2.jpg > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/mobl06crop.jpg > > For 1% of the cost of the Canon 500mm f/4 I can live with the > results :) > and for this kind of performance I'd even be delighted if I had paid a > typical selling price for the 560, about 10% of the cost of the Canon. > Here are a few 100% crops made with the other 560mm f/6.8 Telyt: > > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/nogo03crop.jpg <- 1/8 sec exposure > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/witu19crop.jpg > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/stja03crop.jpg > http://wildlightphoto.com/temp/sand01crop.jpg > > Leica, the bargain brand. > > Doug 'telyts "R" us' Herr > Birdman of Sacramento > http://www.wildlightphoto.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web.com ? What can On Demand Business Solutions do for you? > http://link.mail2web.com/Business/SharePoint > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information