I'm not really a Contax man - some Leica pics...

Most of the pics I've posted rcently were Contax pics. I admit that my

Contax is my favourit toy at the moment, but it can't do everything.

Close-up work is not one of it's stong points. I bought into Contax RF

gear because I wanted to see if the lenses were really better then

Leica lenses. I still can't tell. I still like my Leica gear. RF and SLR.

I got some Macrotar close-up lenses for my old Leicaflex Summicron

(later to be known as Elpros) that I never got aroud to try with a

real camera (actually, I use these with the 'cron on my digital Rebel

for digital close-ups, much better than the "macro" setting on a

plastic zoom lens). So what is there to shoot when there really isn't

anything to shoot? You can do the Ansel Adams thing and shoot barn

doors (which I did, as you can see in one of my examples) or you can

shoot whatever nature appears in front of your lens. I did that too.

All pics taken with Leicaflex SL 2 (ok, this is 4 years too young for

this forum, but I really feel much more at home here than in the Leica

forum...). scanned from prints.<div></div>

Very nice, Peter!

I use my Macrotars (Elpros, both pre 1970s) on my Summicron 50/2-SL2 and now mostly with an adaptor on several other Nikkors (on various cameras). With the Summicron, they do alright. On the Nikkors, the OOF is not so pleasing.