mark_bohrer1

Little Jessie and big Taylor are good buddies. Leica M10, 50mm f/1.5 Summarit (1954, designed 1936. Recoated at Focal Point Lens 2017.) ************************************* This was the first Leica lens I ever used, back in 1969. My grandfather bought it with an M3 camera in Heidelberg in 1954. I'd spiral-scratched the softly-coated front element with over zealous cleaning when I was a teenager. I had it recoated by John van Stelton at Focal Point Lens a month before he retired. I'm quite impressed with the overall rendering - sharper than expected at maximum f/1.5 aperture, but still soft and flared enough for a vintage rendering. It had been so soft before recoating that I hadn't used it much.

M-mount lenses for Leica are completely manual, with aperture rings, focusing rings and depth of field scales for all full apertures. Voigtlander and Zeiss make reasonably-priced, high quality lenses in M-mount, and Fotodiox makes an M to R-mount adapter.