Photos taken with Collapsible Summicron with Chip

[pensacolaphoto]

I recently bought a 5cm Summicron from a fellow photo.netter

[thanks} which has a tiny chipped part at the edge of the front. I

put it to a test by taking family photos downtown Pensacola.

I scanned it with a flat-bed scanner so don't get upset at me

for "not so wonderful images". I used Konica ASA 160 film.

 

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My older daughter.

[pensacolaphoto]

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The photo looks much sharper than the posted one.

I guess, you can still get some idea about the rendition with this lens.

 

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This is my youngest one.

[frank_scheitrowsky1]

I've got a collapsible 50 'cron too and like it very much. In the picture of your youngest child, you seem to have missed the focus. The lap belt is sharper than the face of your child.

[pensacolaphoto]

Frank: You are correct. I missed the focus point. Still, I love the photo because it is my baby.

[frank_scheitrowsky1]

Absolutely!

[pensacolaphoto]

Frank,

Have you ever used a non-collapsible Summicron and have you compared your results collapsible vs. non-collapsible?

[kenny allyn]

Raid ..

 

I also have a collapsiple summicron 50mm f2 a 1954 model .. on a 1961 M3 ... great lens ...

 

Kenny ...

[david_bedell]

Those stupid warning labels! A whole generation of children (my daughter is one) all of whose baby photos will be marred by giant yellow warning labels!

[pensacolaphoto]

David: That's a good one. I also hate these labels. I hope that they help someone though; else they are really annoying and ugly.

[mark_rutledge]

<p>we have the same shild carrier...both my daughters spent a lot of time staring at

the label but luckily their first words weren't WARNING!...although the oldest is

reading at a relatively young age!

<p>BTW, amazing isn't it what a lens with a chip in it is still able to produce! I once

had to use a Panavision zoom on a shoot that had what looked like a large "booger"

inside and the results were still great....

[pensacolaphoto]

Mark,

I haven't even blackened out the chip yet and the results look very promising. The lens itself looks beautiful.

[delta_mike]

Raid, you bought a beautiful lens. I have the same Summicron of 1954 vintage mounted on an M3 and the results never cease to astound me. And the quality of craftsmanship is to die for to boot. This was taken with this lens a few days ago on Fuji 100 print film.<div></div>

[paul_neuthaler]

I loved mine but traded it towards a 35mm 1:2.8 RF Summaron for my M3 after I acquired a 50 DR Summicron. I'm a little sorry. . .

[ronald_moravec1]

Yellow warning labels! That is what black tape is for.

 

I found some that matched the interior of my car. Now it looks normal. At least it doesn`t auto-focus where the headlights are aimed.

[david j.lee]

those yellow ones come out nicely with a hair dryer.

[pensacolaphoto]

I'm not sure whether I can use this lens in its collapsed form on a CL without damaging parts in the camera. Does anyone here use a CL with this lens?

[frederick_muller]

I love this lens (1954 version) and use it regularly on M6's and a Bessa R2 ... I never collapse it. I understand that if you try to collapse it on a CL you will clobber the meter cell. Even collapsed, it's not that compact, especially with a hood and filter on, so why bother? Just use it for its glow.

[pensacolaphoto]

Frederick: I also did not collapse the lens on my CL. This is a lens to keep.

[frederick_muller]

It is indeed, Raid. And another reason why the newest and priciest aren't always the best!

[pensacolaphoto]

Frederick: I also use a pre-war Sonnar 5cm/2 in LTM, and I like the results I get with this lens very much. If a pre-war lens can give such pleasant results, then maybe there is no need to "have to buy" the most recent versions of lenses.

[al_kaplan1]

Raid, it's the fact that we're all so thrilled with our half century old Leicas and lenses that's putting Leica out of business, more so than first SLR's, then auto exposure followed by auto focus and now digital. Just be very patient when explaining to your wife about your concern for all those skilled German craftsmen (and women)in Solms who are depending on you to buy a pair of brand new Leica MP bodies and a complete set of aspheric lenses so they can keep their jobs. I know it's tough surviving on as Florida university prof's salary but when she thinks of all of those poor Germans one step away from the unemployment line she'll be perfectly willing to start doing her own hair at home, buy household products at the 99 cent store, and outfit herself and the children at Goodwill.

[michael s.]

Raid - I'm trying to stop myself from saying it, but the first shot -- the one of your older daughter -- well .... it has a certain ...... uh, oh, the word is on the tip of my tongue .... gl .... gl ..... [this *is* difficult] .... glow.

 

Enjoy the lens! And enjoy this time when your kids (who are awfully cute, Raid) will still let you take their photos. It won't last.

[leicamshooter]

Right now I'm shooting Gold 100 with a slightly radioactive yellow

collapsible summicron. The glass is pristine and works butter

smooth, after a CLA by Sherry. This shot was wide open:

[leicamshooter]

Oops, let me try that again!

 

 

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[pensacolaphoto]

Gonzalo: Is this a German Summicron or are you using a close that has radioactive material in it? I have never heard before of a Summicron lens with radioactive material, but I know that some Soviet lenses had the "glow" ... that you hopefully don't have ;-)

 

Al: I know what you are talking about, but I will not feel "guilty" for not buying very expensive new Leitz optics. There are thousands who. I have always liked better the very old optics and cameras.