Old lenses on new Leicas

[dude163]

1952 Summaron 35/3,5 on M8

 

[Godfrey]

Winter Trees in Fog

It was a lovely, foggy morning yesterday. I took the opportunity to stop at Guadalupe River Park on the way to work and shoot a few scenes with the M9 fitted with a 1960 Hektor 135mm f/4.5 lens. Here's one:

Leica M9 + Hektor 135mm f/4.5
ISO 1000 @ f/6.7 @ 1/500 second​

The old Hektor has a lovely, low contrast feel in this light, don't you think?

Thanks for looking. Comments are always appreciated.

G

 

[kchong]

Canon S-Mount 28mm F2.8 on the M8. It's a cracking lens stopped down, as seen below but rather soft wide open... I loved how compact and light it was, especially compared to my ZM28 but I sold it after a couple of months.

 

[Maggie O]

'59 1st ver. Summilux 50:


Crabapples, December 20, 2012 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr


Sycamore Tree, December 20, 2012 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr


Bedroom Totems, September 28, 2012 by Maggie Osterberg, on Flickr

 

[Woody Campbell]

I found a vintage Orion adapter on eBay - it adapts Contax/Nikon rangefinder lenses to Leica screw mount. It obviously includes a helicoid. I also found an uncoated 1933 5cm. Carl Zeiss Jena Sonnar f2.0 and a Nikkor 5cm f1.4 from the 1950s. The Sonnar is the surprise. Dreamy at f2.0 (almost like a softar) but actually remarkable corner to corner resolution by f5.6 or so. Contrast is quite low but that's easy to work with in post. So far I've shot mainly familiarization stuff - here's a sample at f8.0. A bunch of veiling flair but that's the look. The focus is off a couple of inches at close focus so it's not much use for portraits. Here used on my MM.

 

[Woody Campbell]

Here's the Sonnar and adapter on my MM - taken with my iPhone.

 

[Vivek]

I suppose Cam's sample shots with a 21 Superangulon have to wait.

Here is a test shot with an early sample (silver) of Russar 20/5.6. A crappy looking sample with fantastic glass and results.


Untitled by Vivek Iyer, on Flickr
Leica MM, Russar 20/5.6, f/11, 1/45s, Orange filter

 

[Vivek]

Untitled by Vivek Iyer, on Flickr
Leica MM, W-Nikkor-C 2.5cm f/4, The Hague

 

[Vivek]

Untitled by Vivek Iyer, on Flickr
Leica MM, W-Nikkor-C 2.5cm f/4, The Hague

 

[Vivek]

Untitled by Vivek Iyer, on Flickr
Leica MM, W-Nikkor-C 2.5cm f/4, The Hague

 

[kuujinbo]

First Leica (M-E)...or rangefinder for that matter. Had the camera about a month.

Nikkor-P.C 85mm f2 LTM

Canon 100mm f2.0 LTM

 

[JPL]

Among the older lenses I use every now and then I particularly like the Canon 50 1.2

The Summitar 50 2.0 (uncoated)

Best on the MM...

all the best

JPH

 

[Cindy Flood]

M9 and Leica 50 f/2 coated Summitar

 

[Vivek]

Untitled by Vivek Iyer, on Flickr
Leica MM, M Rokkor 28/2.8, The Hague

 

[awslee]

People's Currency
M240 + Astro Berlin Gauss Tachar 75/2 using EVF-2

People's currency by Higgs Singlet, on Flickr

 

[awslee]

Vista Point
M240 + Cooke Deep Field Panchro 100/2.5 + EVF-2

Vista Point by Higgs Singlet, on Flickr

 

[awslee]

Drag Break
M240 + Nikkor SC Nippon Kogaku 85/1.5 LTM

Drag Break (by Pitstop07) by Higgs Singlet, on Flickr

 

[awslee]

The Model
M240 + Summilux 75 v3 Germany

The model by Higgs Singlet, on Flickr

 

[awslee]

The waiter
M240 + Noctilux 50/1 v1 e58

Faces in Tianzifang (by Pitstop07) by Higgs Singlet, on Flickr

 

[TimothyHyde]

Farmers' Market, Alexandria, Virginia. Leica M with Nikkor-S C F/1.5 LTM