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Interesting site specialy if you are looking to see how this lenses
work wide open (most of it seems wide open).Altough I agree there
isn´t much to see but two or three good pictures.
Is there a reason why I like the out of focus in front of the point
of focus more than behind the point of focus?
For example the picture of the two guys in suit aproaching the big
poster of ladies in a wall; I liked it; hope you can find it among
the tons of pictures.
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Jason; let me give you a wellcome to M photography, I suposs you´re
already a photographer, so the only thing you´re changing is your
camera; they say a Leica M is for all tasks specialy for dificult
ones, for me a M is the perfect camera to walk and photograph people
while you´re among them, is a fast camera if you master it; the
secret is to anticipate, with an auto SLR you just rise the camera
and spect it does everything, when you know what you´re doing that
becomes very unpersonal; with a M you set the exposure by your own
considerations; pre-focus and rise,frame and shoot.
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In the act of rise,frame and shooting is hiden all the beauty and
delait of using a LeicaM; to get to that you just have to practice;
what I do once in a wile is to pick up my ligth meter and measure
diferent ligths specialy those in wich I work most, measure the sun
at diferent times and shadows at diferent deeps, also the interior
ligthing like supermarkets or offices or home, so I don´t use my
meter wile shooting, although I always carry it (well most of the
time), just to feel safe.
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Well after you can handel with ligth; that probably you already do;
then you have to master the focusing act, you can prefocus by looking
at you lens setings, or use hiperfocus (specialy with wideangles and
small apertures),or focus direct to your subject,this last one can be
the most precise but also the most delayed when fast shooting is
required.So as you can see the secret is playing with the toy.
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50 summicron is a gret lens specialy wide open you´ll see.
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The leica M is specialy useful with wide angles; I personaly recomend
the last 35/2 (summicron too), the one before the aspheric, is a tiny
little lens that does marvels in <64°.
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Well Jason wish you the best,
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I bougth my first M3 in 1986, I don´t use any SLR anymore and I hate
changing lenses, and I like working with three lenses (28/35/50), now
I own four bodies and several lenses and I´m very happy with
results.And I had to sell my Renault.
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I know any one that´s interested in Leica M photography wouldn´t ever think about digital photography; any way thank´s for reading.
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This is my idea:
Take an M body, without baseplate and backdoor; instead of a backdoor we put something exactly the same but with a digital sensor instead of the film preasure plate, all the conections go down to something like a motordrive that will hold all the electronics stuff and battery
that may needed.
Tecnology will recive our exposures from a clasic camera and will read it into the new tecnology.
And I think it can handle over exposures or under quite easy, so we could use the shutterspeeds and apertures we wanted in any ligth situations; f/2 and 1/8 at sunligth or wathsoever tecnology alow us.
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You may think I´m a digital tecnology freak; no way, I love the grain of my TRI-X; but I belive Leica M can make a steep into new tecnology; for me the most important thing is to have another reason for M leicas to live.
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Please let me know wath you think.
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RW
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Dear Steven; I went to the same question time ago, and to confirm the
need of a shade specialy in older lenses; I put the lens in any
reflex body to be able to see throuh it,you will see it focused very
near, but is just to be able to make a judgement , and then check the
diference with and without the shade with a side ligth like a
lamp,lens wide open, better if you do it in a dark room with a side
lamp to see flare.Good look.
My opinion; use the shade.
R. Watson
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In my 20 years as amateur photographer, I´ve seen many cameras as
probably most of you, and for me there is no best investment than
leica. I don´t know if it is expensive as a colection item,(it
depends on the colector); although it is a good investment (specialy
M´s), as working equipment I´m sure there is not better, you can pay
for a "comfortable" autoeverythingbatterydependable disponsal body
(yes until now everything that work with ships is disponsable, or who
waranties us an F5 can be working in 30 years, after everyday usage)I
don´t mean they are not good cameras, but who can fix an electronic
body from the early 90´s today; and using leica gives you leica
quality to all your pictures; and they last, so for me in a scale,
leitz quality makes the diference for the users.
And M´s make better photographers.
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I Just been looking at lens MTF test at www.photodo.com, and just want your own coments, also would like to know how is this test done, and if they test the entire format or just the center or an average of this, I felt 50 summicron under rate, specialy when it is the best lens wide open, by a margin.
How objective are this tests?
And what do they represent?
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You´re rigth this is a civiliced place, and a M6-35 summicron pre
asph combo is great choice, I´m sure you won´t ever be disapointed.
I wander why owning a leica can make someone more civiliced, well I´m
sure one of those autoeverything SLR´s can make anyone get stressed.
Enjoy your Leica and have a colorful Christmas
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I have a summilux 35 serial 2626xxx; just wander if I´m missing some modifications this lens may had afterwords.
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Interesting topic on more interesting photographers work.
Me too had the curiosity to examinate DAH NatGeo pictures since I
knew he works with M leicas mainly, I even look in the book impresion
work, since I tought it may be some scaning situation.
What I´ve been looking in his Leica pictures (of course after
apreciate them from a journalistic poin of view, wich I find in it a
gret piece of work), quality of image, there are two or thre pictures
that call my atention about flatness of field, for example the
picture of the sailors with a man with a hat in first plane and the
sea as foreground, if you look at the most distant sea on top of the
image, on the left side you can see a boat far away and sea in
perfect sharpness, on the rigth at the same higth you can see sea in
a difuse way like not in focus or moved.
Other picture, the one of the cowboys working with a wire, with a
horse in the midle of the frame and blue sky at top and grass in the
low part ofthe frame, you can see this grass in perfect focus in the
middle of the frame and try to follow this grass shapnes to both
sides of the frame, and I have check it in my Nat Geo Magazine and in
the book of Cuba, again it is just a thecnical point of view, I am
very interested in coments on this matter.
R. Watson
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Great body for a 21mm lens if you are the prefocus kind of
photographer.Roberto
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Dear James; let me tell you, as a carpenter, the leica lens carrier
attachment, as always been very helpfull, I don´t like it when
shooting, but as a hammer, with an Hektor 135 4.5, is a great tool,
but been serious I can tell that the most sensitive knok or presure
side of a M body is the base plate, I once droped my M3 and it hit
the floor with the corner of the baseplate that has the ear hole, and
the knok made the base plate open, yes, just like that, it was a fell
of about four feet to the cement floor, when I picked it up I shoot
it a couple of times and look carefuly until I found the base plate
was out, so any thing that can hang from it doesn´t seem such a good
idea to me, may be as a hammer.
R. Watson
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You´re rigth, no thread, the inner one is from where the lens
dismounts, I was sure it had a 41mm, any way is a great lens, so
compact for a 1.4, just be careful when wide open with ligth sources
just out side the frame, I just got great halos,like rings of ligth
15 to 20mm round, actualy prety interesting, I don´t know if Steve
LeHuray got them in his 353xxx lens, mine is 2626xxx, otherwise a
great 35.And I think you can use earlier 35mm shades.Roberto Watson
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first a 35/2.8 summaron on a M3 then a 35/1.4 on a M4P, (what a
change), last year I got this 28/2.8 third gen, that I use with my M3
and a 28 finder, now insted of one camera I carry two the 35 and the
28, since my main lens has been 35, the 28 adds a lot without change
much on my prespective, I find very dificult to concentrate on
several lenses, I used to work with a 35 only.
I have use a 21 on my M3 when younger, but I´m old for that stuff.
I´m waiting for the oprtunity to put my hands on that new summicron.
28.
Canon FD 20/2.8 Lens
in Canon FD Mount
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I sold one midle 80`s version, very good at close distances, soft at
2.8 but good enough at 4.