les_lammers Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Minilux or CM. I know they are nice lenses but the real quality/character of an image is lost on the web. At least it is on my PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onelostsoul Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 >"Which Leica Lens are these photos taken?" I cant tell(nor do i care but i do have a question for you...guess what im thinking right now? give up? the answer is.....YOU ARE AN IDIOT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_b._elmer Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Lux 75/1.4 - but you have cropped the pic's so they look digital and could ha ve been taken with Digilux 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy m. Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 <i>"..all shot at f2.4"</i><p> Through the bottom of a jamjar?<p> Sorry, only joking, but they could have been taken with anything, except for medium/large format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
douglas k. Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 This thread gets my vote for "dumbest of the week." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 The perspective seems a little bit flattened to me. I would venture that the lens is a little longer than 50mm--say, 75 or 90? As much as we fuss about the virtues of our lenses, ad the differences among their signatures, it seems paradoxical that some folks get upset when asked to recognize any of them. It seems like a good exercise in sharpening our knowledge and observation skills. In fact, maybe I'll start a thread myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerald_widen Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I'd guess a Summar 50/2, probably a clean one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob F. Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 The contrast looks good. I would guess a more recent lens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james_cooke Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 It was just a bit of fun to guess, geez some of you are so uptight! Bob I thought you were trying to get people to chill a bit more but what you have written seems more likely to incite people again when the thread was obviously meant in good spirit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliot_rosen1 Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Chuck, Douglass, and El Fang. I can think of something much dumber than this thread. How about people who only have contempt for Leica and Leica users regularly posting their bile on the Leica Photography Forum. How's that for stupid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic_. Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Summitar or Summarit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy m. Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 I love Leica gear and own and regularly use some of it, but I can't help but thinking that there is no way to tell what lens took the above images. Quite apart from variability in scanning and image processing, which may not be doing the negatives or the images justice. Does anyone think that they would be able to tell a scanned and posted image apart taken with a 50mm Summicron, against say a 50mm Nikkor SLR lens? I don't believe this is possible, but would be happy to be proven wrong. I'm not being disrespectful, just genuinely interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Interesting. F2.4 eh? I will guess Summarit 40mm on a Minilux or CM. Syuji here is one of my Summarit shots at F4 on a Leica CM (now sold to pay for my present R3A/Summicron).... <center><img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/2572762-lg.jpg"></center> </p> <center><i>Summarit 40mm @f4</i></center> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 But I agree that this could have been taken with any reasonably good 35 - 40mm lens. And I too do not believe in such a thing as Leica glow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolgachov Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 there's a difference 3MP digican image and scan from Leica M. it's hard to describe it but i almost always notice the difference between RF and SLR scans as well. ;] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 OK here is a pic taken with a lens. Which lens? Leica or not? Digital or film?<div></div> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy m. Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Lev, interesting comment. So if I posted an image from each of these cameras, you would be able to easily differentiate the digital from the film cameras, and most probably between the SLR and the M? Unfortunately I don't have suitable images to post for comparison, but I hopefully will in the next few months. It would be interesting to see how people get on with this. FWIW The only images that I believe I could correctly call at least nine times out of ten would be between medium format and 35mm images/scans. Here the difference is really unambiguous (IMHO). Cheers, A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 This thread does raise an interesting point. I can post stuff I have taken with Contax/Zeiss, Minolta X series SLR/Rokkor, Leica CM, Leica Summicron, Nikon F80, Nikon D70, Canon A80, Rolleicord, Yashicamat 124G, Lomo, Olympus Trip 35, Yashica T5, Contax T2/Zeiss Sonnar..... etc etc No-one will know, unless I am truthful, and no-one can tell IF we are all truthful. I can append a picture of the camera (the ones I still use) but that is only evidence of ownership and not use of the same camera for that shot. I am getting around to removing details from pics in my gallery because they are unecessary. I remember what they are taken with and if people like a picture they can ask. The equipment used is not important as long as it results in a good photograph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy m. Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 <img src="http://d6d2h4gfvy8t8.cloudfront.net/3169891-md.jpg"><p> SLR, digital, or M rangefinder? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icuneko Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 The lens is a f/2.4 Trollicron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolgachov Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Trevor, it's RF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolgachov Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Andy, it's SLR. and Trevor, yours look like Ilford XP2 Super. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirk-san1 Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Trevor: Nikon D70 with a 18-50 zoom or similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 Actually both were taken a while back with my old Leica CM and BW400CN (or Portra 400BW or T400CN or whatever Kodak were calling it that week) but my point is that no-one is able to post any photo that people will be able to tell is Leica just from the 'look'. (At least no-one has managed yet and this IS the Leica forum) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad_ Posted March 16, 2005 Share Posted March 16, 2005 <I>Hey, take a whiff of this...<BR> Guess what I had for lunch?</I><P> Bzzzzt. Time's up. It was a tuna fish sandwich on wheat. www.citysnaps.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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