"MOUNTAIN" Elmar 10,5cm - some pics.

Having inserted an extra glare-suppressing baffle inside my Elmar

10,5cm lens (see my earlier post "Mountain Elmar and Glare"

(2006-10-08), I shot some snaps on Kodak Gold 100:<div></div>

Another...<div></div>

Wonderful, I have three 'older' Leica lenses, and I hope that they will always be as clean as your 10.5mm Elmar.<div></div>

The old glass is indeed amazing. But so is the latest and I can`t ever decide what to use unless I carry a screw body that will not take lenses past 1960.

 

You can straighten the second image in PS. Go image-rotate-custom- and type in 3 degrees left. You can even do 1/10 degree by 0.1. Under view, check grid lines so you can line it up. Under preferences, establish the spacing of the lines and color. I like red.

 

If you have real PS, not elements, hold down shift or control and click on a grid line to move it where you want.

LTM f4/9cm Elmar <br> <br>

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it doesn't have to be sharp to be beautiful. Great job guys..

Jack - that landscape looks razor sharp!

 

Here is a crop of a small part of one of my shots, above, with the

"Mountain" Elmar:<div></div>

Ronald,

 

Thanks for the tip. With CS2 it's Image>rotate Canvas>Arbitrary. It can be adjusted to 0.1 bit by bit and then crop a touch. I never knew that was possible.

Sorry - I should have re-sized that previous pic, for easy viewing!

Here's another seacape. "Mountain" Elmar, again.<div></div>

"Mountaineering" in the backyard with the Elmar 10,5cm:<div></div>

Not quite sure I got the hang of your baffle and hoods, but the resulsts are great. I have a black uncoated 90mm elmar, and it does a great job

Hi Todd,

 

it's a bad idea to go bit by bit with 'arbitrary'. You loose sharpness/contrast by added-up

errors from the recalculations you caused (oh, I'm just too tired to explain the math

correctly!).

Bottom line: Fiddle around/back and forth with 'arbitrary' and the undo until you get it

right in one jump.

Besides, you can even go by 0.01!.....

Cheers, Peter

John, thanks, it does a good job stopped down in full daylight. So does your Mountain, apparently. Here's one of my kids taken with the same lens indoors with a strong backlight. There's a little flare from the backlight, but the image is sharp. <br> <br>

 

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I took a chance knowing a fussy Leica guy would not put up a crooked pic if he knew how to fix it.

 

I retired a month ago and it is amazing how much I have learned about photoshop. I am fixing skies, doing adjustment layers and layer masks, fancy selections, textures, simulated painting. All nice things, but you need time to learn.

Thanks Ronald. I have PS 6 installed on my ageing Mac, and

have sometimes used the rotation feature to straighten things.

However, I posted the "verandah" shot " without any treatment.

Cheers.