Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/10/07

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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAD 7/10/2014: lens tests
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 01:21:55 -0500
References: <F412CD96-8C3A-45EC-80C5-11E82AF379B7@frozenlight.eu>

Looks like a fine lens.  Three excellent images.  I like your handling 
of the light level in the moonrise shot.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 10/7/2014 11:54 PM, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
> I got my ?new? 50mm collapsible Summicron from the Leica Shop in Vienna 
> last week. The lens is beauty, absolutely impeccable condition for a piece 
> of kit from 1953. I forgot of course that it was a screw mount lens, so I 
> had to wait a few more days for the Fotodiox LTM-M adapter to arrive from 
> Amazon. It did on Monday, so yesterday I finally had a chance to do some 
> testing. I am happy to report that the lens performs beautifully on the 
> M8. One of the joys of Leica is that you can take two pieces of equipment 
> that are 55 years apart and use them together. So here are three pictures, 
> the first two with the ?new? Summicron, and the third with a 90mm 
> Tele-Elmarit from the mid-1970s, another one of my favourite M lenses:
>
> Inhabitant of El Campello harbour:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3596330595&k=Qp72L9b&lb=1&s=O
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> A Guinness on the beach (this is one is at the closest focusing distance 
> of 1 meter):
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3596330761&k=LbvScZr&lb=1&s=O
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> Moon rising:
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/4253606_kdsZ6C#!i=3596330965&k=jQCjLgh&lb=1&s=O
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
> http://www.frozenlight.eu
> http://www.greatpix.eu
> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws
> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/
> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator
> YNWA
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