syuji_honda Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Which Leica Lens are these photos taken?<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandt_fan Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 That would be utterly impossible to tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syuji_honda Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 2nd photo<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_woo3 Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Dual Range 50mm Summicron?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syuji_honda Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 3rd photo<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandt_fan Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 How can you tell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syuji_honda Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 Film is Provia 100. Scanner is Nikon Coolscan V ED. No filter in photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Q:Which lens? A:The one on your camera. It's said there's no such thing as a dumb question. Personally, I'm not sure sure about that anymore. If this is a quiz game, can I buy a vowel please... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorge Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 LEICA VARIO-ELMAR f/3.6-7.9/28-80 mm ASPH.? (The C3 lens if it's film). Second guess, DC Vario-Elmarit 5.8~17.4/2.8-4.9mm (Panasonic Lumix DMC-F15/K lens) if digital. Given the size and resolution of your image it could be any of the two, as well as any of the stratospheric ones like the new 'cron 50. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jorge Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Bob, no you cannot buy a vowel. I've got them all five. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandt_fan Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Please help me here. How can anytone know a difference between lenses from a photo. even a big slide screen would not reveal anything more than good lens v bad lens let alone who made it. a web pic could have been made with an old instamatic camera in the right circumstances. 511 pixels can tell you nothing about quality or makes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtdnyc Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Brandt, a photo can contain several clues as to which lens was used. If a picture has typical wide-angle perspective, it had to have been taken with a wide-angle lens. (However, the inverse isn't true: a picture with normal perspective, or even compressed perspective, doesn't necessarily mean the lens was normal or telephoto; the picture could be a crop.) The degree to which the background is out of focus could be a clue to how big the aperture was. Coupled with an assumption about focal length, this could indicate the lens used. (Example: wide angle perspective plus out-of-focus background would tend to indicate a 35 Summilux.) Extreme close-up perspective could indicate that the lens is a DR Summicron or 90 Makro-Elmar, rather than a crop from a shot taken at normal distance with a different lens. A picture of a flat surface with markedly better resolution in the center than in the corners might indicate that the lens is of an older generation. The rendition of out-of-focus light sources sometimes can give a clue as well. However, I don't see that the images shown here contain any unambiguous clues, except perhaps that the first shot could not have been taken with a long prime lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtdnyc Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Oops... I mean the second shot, the one of the garbage can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnmarkpainter Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Lomo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Can't you tell from that characteristic "glow" which differentiates Leica lenses from all others? Don't all the lenses have special characteristics which Leica cognoscenti can instantly recognize? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobatkins Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 If I can't have a vowel, do I get another spin? Can't you tell from that characteristic "glow" which differentiates Leica lenses from all others? Don't all the lenses have special characteristics which Leica cognoscenti can instantly recognize? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandt_fan Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Jonathan. I did not make myself too understandable sorry. I know what you say about wide angle / tele, DOF etc. What i dispute is that one can tell any more than good quality v bad quality from a print or slide screen. NO quality difference can be told from computer screen at all. Except the most gross technically bad lenses maybe. Anything better than a cheap plastic lens will all look the same on a computer screen (except basics as Jonathan said like wide/tele or small/big aperture) cetrainly no-one could ever tell BRAND from photo or screen or slide. impossible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
el_fang Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 <i>"Can't you tell from that characteristic "glow" which differentiates Leica lenses from all others? Don't all the lenses have special characteristics which Leica cognoscenti can instantly recognize?"</i> <p>What'll happen next, Bob, is the Leica cognoscenti will come up with a barrage of "only if"s. A classic? "Only if" you look at the original piece of film with a loupe - only the Leica 5x APO will do, by the way - which conveniently explains why nobody ever sees the "glow" in print, on the web or anywhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtdnyc Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Brandt, agreed. I guess I was just pointing out the obvious. At least the original poster didn't ask us to guess which scanner he used (assuming the shots aren't digital)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandt_fan Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 hehe what is the 'glow' Bob/elfang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandt_fan Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I cannot afford very nice cameras quite yet until soon but I have bookshelf full of excellent, to me, photographers books from most of the 20th century and the only 'glow' is what the photogrpaher decided to place in picture. It is there in lots of photos but the man or woman who pressed the shutter decided it should be there. Not the lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy m. Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I wonder if I post a simlarly PS processed photo from my wife's 3MP digican next to a scan from my Leica M whether anyone would be able to differentiate <i>on screen?</i> Just a thought.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brandt_fan Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 It would be worth trying. Yes do it please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Hey, take a whiff of this... Guess what I had for lunch? www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syuji_honda Posted March 16, 2005 Author Share Posted March 16, 2005 Ok, I give you guys a hint. S U + + + + + + all shot at f2.4<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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