Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/07/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I only have a few ?old? Leica lenses: 50/3.5 Elmar 50/2 Summitar collapsible 50/1.5 Summarit 35/2.8 Summaron and a few old other brands in LTM mount: 50/1.4 Nikkor 50/1.5 Sonnar 50/2 Canon 50/1.2 Canon I suppose I consider ?old? to be anything manufactured before I reached puberty. Jeffery > On Jul 22, 2015, at 3:09 PM, Lluis Ripoll <lluisripollphotography at > gmail.com> wrote: > > As many as you know I love the old lenses but for this topic we should > maybe define what we understand for a old lens. I?ve found many times that > what a young person says is it is old ? i.e. a smartphone 2 years old?, > it?s not old for us. > > ?It is always in the imperfect of the objective that he conjugates the > verb to photograph?, Robert Doisneau/Jacques Pr?vert 1957 > > Maybe we shall focus this discussion about perfection vs imperfection? > > When I?m using my Summilux 75 or 50 vs2 or 35 pre asph ? I don? have at > all the sense to are using an old lens, it?s different when I?m using my > Summitar, or my beloved Summicron Collapsible and Rigid. > > I never hear talk about glamour, meanwhile there are coming to the market > new fans of the Petzval lenses > > Just some of my thoughts when I have more time for share > > Cheers > Lluis > > > > > > > El 22/07/2015, a les 21.47, CJ andS <csaganich at gmail.com> va escriure: > >> Hari Hari - and you can get free breakfast and lunch at their place on >> Schermerhorn Street. >> >> Chris >> >> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 3:15 PM, <j2m46 at hotmail.fr> wrote: >> >>> I use my minolta rokkor lenses (50 macro and 24) on my M8 with a fotodiox >>> adapter. Got to stop down to f16. Needs a bright day... I just bought a >>> Fuji xe-1... and another adapter: these classic minolta lenses are doing >>> ? >>> great job thanks to focus peaking and other marvels ! >>> >>> >>> Envoy? par Outlook pour Android >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 6:59 AM -0700, "Peter Dzwig" < >>> pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote: >>> Great shot. I have several Minolta lenses that I would love to use on my >>> screw >>> mounts but there isn't an adapter to either LTM or M. Used to love my SRT >>> 101. >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> On 21/07/2015 21:44, Roger Rubin wrote: >>>> No matter what I have I still gravitate to the old lenses. This was a >>> 40mm >>>> f2 (80mm efl) M mount Rokkor which came from my Minolta CLE. It was and >>>> still is a great lens. Imaged with a G1X using Raw+JPG- Developed in >>>> Silkypix- because I still can't get images to load into Lightroom. >>> -Bests: >>>> vroger >>>> >>>> >>> https://v-images.smugmug.com/Other/Hkrishna-woman-union-sq-nyc/50770143_mTrgd7#!i=4220238420&k=dVh6Mwp&lb=1&s=X2 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> =========================================================== >>> Dr Peter Dzwig >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Chris Saganich >> www.imagebrooklyn.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information