Recent content by Paxnobiscum

I also find the Nikon Df a very interesting camera, but it's too expensive for my wallet at the moment. I happen to have close to forty manual focus F-mount lenses, some of them are Leica-R with Leitax F-adapter - and a few auto-focus lenses too. I mostly use them on Nikon D700, but I really...

Nice to see you here Aaron. The lens is perfect, besides the left-leaning tendency, but an old hippie like me is fine with that:-)

This is a great lens, for sure. I'm getting old and shaky, but it was not hard at all to nail the focus. It balances nicely on the camera too. The only fault is that it mounts a bit too far to the left - the scale tilts to the left and the tripod mount to the right. I't makes no difference in...

Just got the Nikkor 10.5cm f/2.5 LTM. Here is the first snap-shot test with the grand old dame. @f/2.5, @1/90 @ISO 640, The third volume @MFD, handheld. LR5 + B&W in Silver Efex Pro 2, minimal PP. Waiting for a Leica 1.4x viewfinder magnifier from Popflash Photo to use with it...

Is "connoisseurs of fine fifties" too pompous?

Leica M8 + Summicron 5cm/2 M collapsible, @f/2 and MFD 20130902-L1008642-Edit-2 by Count Basil, on Flickr

This is incredible - shooting B&W @ISO 2500 on M8 sounds too good to be true!

The lens in case has a serial number starting with 623xxx. I guess it's similar to the one I'm watching at brooklyncamera (621xxx) - but with a slight oil on the blades and less expensive.

I have been looking for the Nikkor 50/2 LTM and have got one interesting offer. It's an early NKJ copy in good shape, with a click-stop less aperture ring. Now I would like to ask when, and if ever, Nikon introduced aperture clicks to this type of lenses during their lifetime? I actually like to...

I understand - even old Nikkors don't do the impossible. But it's a nice possibility to get closer than the RF allows by scale focusing.

Thanks a lot Brian. The 5cm/2 H.C is obviously a great Sonnar, beautifully demonstrated by your shots. One more excellent portrait lens with elegant bokeh. I'm flabbergasted by it's close focus range of 18" - did you modify it to reach such a short MFD? Does it lose the RF coupling at some...

Thanks Brian. Please show us some shots from the MM + Nikkor H.C 5cm/2 combo. I will definitely grab a copy of this lens, sooner rather than later.

It's a well known fact that you can never have to many 50mm lenses. I've recently become a bit obsessed with the Nikkor 5cm/2 H.C, rigid, in LTM and would highly appreciate all information regarding that lens. I was told, on another website, that it's very prone to getting oil on the blades. Is...

This informal portrait is from my first testing of a J-3, 1957, that I grabbed from a Zorki 6. I didn't expect it to work at all on my M8, but was pleasantly surprised when I checked the files. It hasn't been CLA'd or collimated, but would, without doubt, get better by a proper overhaul. I have...

You didn't find it - you made it, didn't you? I have tried very hard to convince Tim Barker to sell me his J-3, collimated and adjusted by you, Brian. He still refuses - and tells me that you are the first in line, if he ever lets it go. That's an excellent copy, as far as I can see.