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    Nikon Nikon Df

    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...
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    Leica Showcase Nikon 10.5cm F2.5 Nikkor-PC LTM

    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:-)
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    Leica Showcase Nikon 10.5cm F2.5 Nikkor-PC LTM

    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...
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    Leica Showcase Nikon 10.5cm F2.5 Nikkor-PC LTM

    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...
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    Leica Show us your shots with the 50mm

    Is "connoisseurs of fine fifties" too pompous?
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    Leica Show us your shots with the 50mm

    Leica M8 + Summicron 5cm/2 M collapsible, @f/2 and MFD 20130902-L1008642-Edit-2 by Count Basil, on Flickr
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    Leica Raw Mode on the Leica M8- Uncompressed DNG uncovered and Tools available at m8raw2dng.de

    This is incredible - shooting B&W @ISO 2500 on M8 sounds too good to be true!
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    Leica Nikkor 50/2 H,C LTM

    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.
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    Leica Nikkor 50/2 H,C LTM

    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...
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    Leica Nikkor 50/2 H,C LTM

    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.
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    Leica Nikkor 50/2 H,C LTM

    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...
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    Leica Nikkor 50/2 H,C LTM

    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.
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    Leica Nikkor 50/2 H,C LTM

    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...
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    Leica Sonnars old and new

    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...
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    Leica Sonnars old and new

    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.
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    Leica You need a wide!!! Is the VC 15/4.5 the way to go??

    The first shot on this thread proves how good the little CV 15/4.5 really is. I like my LTM-version on M8 very much, even for portraits. I bought my copy with a six bit coded Millich adapter and UV/IR cut filter, held in place by a rubber O-ring. No problem. Street life I. Kopasker, Iceland...
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    Leica Sonnars old and new

    I guess I will skip the C Sonnar, because of the price, but the hunt for a perfect Jupiter-3 is an ongoing process:-)
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    Leica W/NW Fall 2013

    Georgia on my mind - and Sweet Virginia! Two classical songs and two great states. I use the freedom of this thread to add two Nikon D700 shots, both with manual focus lenses, for sure, and pretty old too. The happy gardener. Fisheye-Nikkor 16mm f/3.5, factory AI'd 20130930-_DSC4961-Cucumber...
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    Leica W/NW Fall 2013

    The weather is a bit better today, but the sun is getting very low at this time of the year. Leica M9 + Jupiter-3 1952 @f/5.6 20131104-L1008870 Exile on Main Street VIII by Count Basil, on Flickr
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    Leica W/NW Fall 2013

    Beautiful autumn leaves, Brian. It's a bit late for me to find such motives - it's already winter in Kopasker, Iceland. I ventured out my front door to shoot the local Main Street. Leica M8 + Summicron 5cm/2 collapsible. 20131102-L1008654-Exile on Main Street VII by Count Basil, on Flickr
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    Leica Showcase Leica M Monochrom

    I sincerely apologize for posting on a wrong thread. I had in mind to post to the "W/NW Fall 2013". I have moved the the pictures there and deleted them from this great MM thread.
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    Leica Pls suggest me about choosing my tele-lens

    Has someone tried the Nikkor 10.5cm f/4 T, preset? A strange bird in the Nikkor 10.5/105 group of lenses, indeed. I have seen excellent shots from the F-mount version - but I guess this type is mostly a collectors item now. And by the way - I think I've found a very good copy of the Nikkor...
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    Leica Pls suggest me about choosing my tele-lens

    I have the Elmarit-M 90/2.8, the Elmar 9cm/4 M collapsible and the Summarit-M 75/2.5. They are all good, but the Elmar on M9 and the Summarit-M on M8 are my favorites. I'm seriously tempted to add the Nikkor 10.5cm f/2.5 PC. The prices for the LTM version are getting rather high, but Nikkor-S...
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    Leica Introduce Yourself...

    Hi Brian I found the test shots from M8 + J-9 without UV/IR cut filter. I hope you can see the color cast on the 1951 and two 1957 Jupiter-3 copies, but not on the CZJ and the 1952 J3. I was not looking for this phenomenon when I shot the picture, and the light on the 1951 J-3 is less than her...
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    Leica Anyone tried the Jupiter-9 85/2

    That's really interesting, even though I know that modifying a Kiev/Contax J-9 to the Leica mount is not the right job for a faint-hearted, five-thumbs guys like me! Did you use the mount from a J-9 LTM lens? Did you document the process? Please excuse my curiosity.
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    Leica I need a SOOGZ 39mm filter adapter for Summaron 3.5cm f/3.5 A36 lens

    [Completed] I need a SOOGZ 39mm filter adapter for Summaron 3.5cm f/3.5 A36 lens I'm waiting for a glorious little Summaron 3.5cm f/3.5 A36 lens with a Leitz LTM->M adapter and the matching FOOKH hood. I really want a fine SOOGZ adapter to be able to mount 39mm filters on it, e.g. the UV/IR cut...
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    Leica Showcase Nikon 10.5cm F2.5 Nikkor-PC LTM

    Thanks, Brian, for this exhibition of Nikkor 10.5cm f/2.5 shots and great info. I'm sure that it's an extraordinary nice portrait lens.
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    Leica Anyone tried the Jupiter-9 85/2

    I have a "mint" 1962 Jupiter-9 in Kiev/Contax mount. I used it a little bit on M8, with the Amedeo adapter, and it performes very nicely. The focus is stiff though and uneven, but I assume it proves that it has, luckily, not been opened by an amateur. I had to return the first copy to the...
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    Leica Introduce Yourself...

    Thanks Brian. My CZJ 50/1.5 is an uncoated copy in Contax mount. I use it with a Amedeo adapter. I also have a nice Zeiss Opton 50/2 in Contax mount and a 1951 Jupiter-3 too. My other J-3 copies are in LTM mount, one from 1952 and the other from 1957. Both are pretty good, I think, and both seem...
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    Leica Introduce Yourself...

    My name is Petur Thorsteinsson and I'm a glass addict. I'm 64 years old and live in a tiny village, Kopasker, on the north-east coast of Iceland. I'm a pretty lousy photographer and lazy too, but I have a strong affection for good photographic equipment, above all lenses for Leica, but also...
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