W/NW 2023 Pic-O'-The-Week #35

[allancobb]

Welcome everyone to Week 35 of 2023, the Leica and Rangefinders W/NW Thread! Here's a scene from the inner courtyard of the Royal Navy Dockyard, Bermuda.

Leica Q (116), 28mm f/1.7 Summilux

[Bill Blackwell Images]

Leica M10-P

50mm Asph Summilux

Point Vicente, RPV, CA

[arthur_mcculloch2]

My images are from a fundraiser my spouse and I did yesterday at a day activity program for elderly retirees. (We called it 'soup for soup', to help fund a soup kitchen program in the Ukraine). Like many retiree groups, women outnumbered men by about ten to one.  Men die earlier. Taken with my monchrom type 246 and a Jupiter 85mm lens, which doesn't support focus peaking, so my success rate was about 1:2. The monochrom needs a sensor clean.

 

[viktor_gruber]

Leica M4-P, Voigtlander 35mm f1.4

 

[luis triguez]

walking through old Madrid

 

 

the three with (1947) Leica II. Jupiter 12 (35 mm) 100TMax (ISO 100) D-76 (1:1) 9' 45" at 20 ºC (one inversion per minute)

[Allen Herbert]

[Greg M]

MP240 and 75mm f2 APO Summidron-M.

[arthur_mcculloch2]

5 hours ago, Greg M said:

MP240 and 75mm f2 APO Summidron-M.

Greg M, how do you find the 75mm summicron? I'm thinking of getting one to replace my existing voigtlander (aka cosina) 75mm.  Very nice image. The colour is really saturated. Very 'lively'. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

[Bill Blackwell Images]

I realize you didn't ask me, but I owned the 75mm Summicron shortly after it was released; it's very sharp and is pretty much a perfect rendering lens. 

I sold it because I rarely used it. I now own the CV 75mm Heliar Classic f/1.8, which, while still doesn't get allot of use, it get's used more than the Summicron did.

Don't ask why. ...

[arthur_mcculloch2]

7 hours ago, Bill Blackwell Images said:

I realize you didn't ask me, but I owned the 75mm Summicron shortly after it was released; it's very sharp and is pretty much a perfect rendering lens. 

I sold it because I rarely used it. I now own the CV 75mm Heliar Classic f/1.8, which, while still doesn't get allot of use, it get's used more than the Summicron did.

Don't ask why. ...

Thanks Bill Blackwell Images.  Much appreciated. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

[Greg M]

On 9/3/2023 at 2:23 AM, arthur_mcculloch2 said:

Greg M, how do you find the 75mm summicron? I'm thinking of getting one to replace my existing voigtlander (aka cosina) 75mm.  Very nice image. The colour is really saturated. Very 'lively'. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

The 75mm f2 APO Summicron is a very nice optic. Compact, but dense, and very fast to focus. I've used it quite a lot as part of my primary four lens (21-35-75-135) outfit.

At f2-2.8 your rangefinder needs to be aligned properly and the focus throw is so fast you can just miss short or long pretty easily at any aperture setting. I can use it well enough with no focus aid at f5.6 or smaller apertures but the 1.25x or 1.4x rangefinder magnifiers makes focus with 75-90-135mm lenses much more secure at faster apertures. It also doesn't hurt the frames are enlarged with the magnifiers for composition aid.

 

[arthur_mcculloch2]

Thanks Greg M. Much appreciated. I use an evf with focus peaking. It's almost impossible to get the magnifiers here in Oz. Regards, Arthur (apiarist1)

[Greg M]

The two Leica magnifiers seem to be unobtainable right now just about anywhere.