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50mm Chinese M Lens

Cheap - well by Leica standards - say under £500 - f/2 and less non-Leica M lenses - has anyone tried these, especially the ones now coming out of China?
 
Hi, looking back to my MF days ... (M9 - Summicron 2/35 v4, f 2 ; crop) :



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One might call this a proper Medium Format camera. Others might say anything smaller than 6x9 is not. Actually, the first pics I took were with my sister's 6x9 BILORA.

In the austere 1950s, pics were only taken on important occasions: birthdays, Easter, Christmas. So, films lasted quite a long time ... ---

I still have the ROLLEI. It is a beautiful piece of machinery, however rarely used. Every now and then I think about buying a FUJI GFX, but remembering how little I used the ROLLEI and the FUJI 645, I stay with what we used to call Kleinbild (24x36mm) in Germany.
 
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Hi, ... (M9 - Tele-Elmarit-M 2,8/90 f 2,8).

90mm is a typical portrait lens :


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Used for a full body pic of my model here ... ;) :


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Used my M10 for an event for the first time last week. Shot the whole thing on it with a 35mm Summicron. The quality of the files are provable some of the best I have ever edited. I love the results from it. I am not sure I can bring myself to leave my AF safety net for weddings yet but if I could manage it, I would definitely go 100% Leica (although it's an expensive system).
 
do you manually record the exposure settings when using your "M" cameras - I used to, some time ago, but then gave up?
 
BillN_33 said:
Managed to grab a "mint" copy - 50mm f1.4 Version II - family "portraits" with my M8 = 66mm on the M8

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Bill, thanks for posting this. Japanese Summilux.
Often looked at it when I shot my Leica film cameras, never bothered.
I found one on eBay and it's on the way to me.
Gonna adapt it to my Nikon Zf
 
BillN_33 said:
do you manually record the exposure settings when using your "M" cameras - I used to, some time ago, but then gave up?
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Hi, I typically use certain settings in certain situations, which makes remembering easy.
 
trevorbray said:
Bill, thanks for posting this. Japanese Summilux.
Often looked at it when I shot my Leica film cameras, never bothered.
I found one on eBay and it's on the way to me.
Gonna adapt it to my Nikon Zf
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I only used it for a couple of days, on my M240 and M8 - some of the "negatives" have appeared, (especially when using it at f1.4), but I don't see them as such, I just see them as characteristics from a 1950's lens - it seems to be a B & W lens generally, but colours have there own style - I got a couple of good, different shots, of one of my grand kids, which is what I wanted it for.

when you get an adaptor for your Zf - let me know how you get on as I have a Zf which I don't really use much

I found this review interesting Trevor - it points out what may be called "negatives" as well as the "positives"

phillipreeve.net

Review: Canon 50mm 1.4 LTM - phillipreeve.net

The Canon 50mm 1.4 LTM is a famous compact and fast 50mm rangefinder lens from 1957 that can also be adapted to
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BillN_33 said:
I only used it for a couple of days, on my M240 and M8 - some of the "negatives" have appeared, (especially when using it at f1.4), but I don't see them as such, I just see them as characteristics from a 1950's lens - it seems to be a B & W lens generally, but colours have there own style - I got a couple of good, different shots, of one of my grand kids, which is what I wanted it for.

when you get an adaptor for your Zf - let me know how you get on as I have a Zf which I don't really use much

I found this review interesting Trevor - it points out what may be called "negatives" as well as the "positives"

phillipreeve.net

Review: Canon 50mm 1.4 LTM - phillipreeve.net

The Canon 50mm 1.4 LTM is a famous compact and fast 50mm rangefinder lens from 1957 that can also be adapted to
phillipreeve.net phillipreeve.net
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Bill. I’ll certainly keep you informed.
Yeah. Spotted that review. Thanks
 
My MP came back from repair this week, so a roll went through it to test it. Thanks to the Leica Store in Manc for a very quick (4 week) turnaround. Impressive stuff.

MP + Zeiss 50mm f/1.5 Sonnar
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trevorbray said:
Bill. I’ll certainly keep you informed.
Yeah. Spotted that review. Thanks
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It's an interesting lens Trevor - which I'll struggle with but LR helps - I find it has certain characteristics, (maybe negative) wide open, especially with colour, and is quite surprising - but it's what I wanted, (soft focus) - (sometimes I get what I never thought that I would get) - here's a couple of images wide open at f1.4, (focus is not easy, especially with moving kids!) - I never normally post images of my family but this is one of my grand kids - the Mini is to look at the colours, (I've played with the BG in LR), the focus was on the door mirror.
Not many shots to date - these are with my M8 for Thomas, just a quick shot inside with natural light, and the M240 for the green Mini

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BillN_33 said:
focus is not easy, especially with moving kids!
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Considering you were using a rangefinder, that portrait is a beautiful image Bill.
 
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