35mm

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Steve
Just an Armadillo on the shoulder of the information superhighway.

35mm SMC Takumar on Sigma sdQH.

I do not recommend the SA mount cameras for adapting lenses. The register distance is that of an SLR, and the only lenses that can be adapted without mods are M42. Even then, the adapters are so thin that they are very hard to remove. Sigma are promising an L mount camera for some time next year, which should be much better for adapting lenses.

Adapting from SA mount for close work with bellows or macro lenses does work.





RE.Auto-Topcor f/2.8 35mm

A similar design to the Flektogon, and likewise with close focussing to 9 inches. A nice lens to use.

The limiting factor here is the NEX-5N sensor.

Litho speed press in het Steendrukmuseum Valkenswaard




Hunter Penrose process camera also there, with Hobson Anastigmat lens








Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
No photographer's gear list is complete without the printer mentioned !

I like this lens too


Autumn Bloom




Plum Blossoms




In the park





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Vintage person with a bit of a thing for vintage lenses...

Fortunate to find this lens in near new condition. I find it to have saturated colors, excellent close focusing capability & attractive rendering. On a crop sensor such as the X-E1, does a great job for portraits. It is built like a tank and enjoy the aluminum scalloped focus ring.

@f/8



@f/4

A beautiful evening, after almost a month with rain.

Concave thorium chrome nose version.


F2



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So not a great shot, a little blurred by the shakes in low light.

SLN001 said:

Sony A6000

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With apologies for singling this out from a whole thread of nice images but there’s just something lovely about the way it looks - this sharp yet delicate rendering, and I don’t know if it’s the lens, the lighting, the processing or just something inherently aesthetic about the subject.

Anyway, thanks for posting and if I ever talk myself into buying another 35mm I know exactly where to start looking.

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Here’s some from mine. It’s claim to fame is it’s a gen III edition and has a completely different coating to all the other multi coated Zuikos. It’s red/orange instead of green/purple! Little things etc...

Other than that it’s like the other f2 wide angles they made.


Pretty normal stopped down




Glows wide open

My only real issue with it is how hard I find composing with it. Lacks the immediacy of a 50 or the expansiveness of a 28/24. I’m aware that puts me in the minority!

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illumidata said:

SLN001 said:

Sony A6000

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With apologies for singling this out from a whole thread of nice images but there’s just something lovely about the way it looks - this sharp yet delicate rendering, and I don’t know if it’s the lens, the lighting, the processing or just something inherently aesthetic about the subject.

Anyway, thanks for posting and if I ever talk myself into buying another 35mm I know exactly where to start looking.

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Thanks so much for your kind comments. I sold the Summaron a few years back and am still kicking myself today. They have gone way up in price and many on the market are not in great shape. I keep looking and hoping that perseverance will prevail.

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illumidata said:

My only real issue with it is how hard I find composing with it. Lacks the immediacy of a 50 or the expansiveness of a 28/24. I’m aware that puts me in the minority!

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Nice images that also show the image quality of your lens.

For me the angle of view of a 35mm fits like a glove. Whether I belong to a majority ........


Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst
No photographer's gear list is complete without the printer mentioned !

VM version.

Sony a7ii (VM - E Close Focus adapter)







Z7



f/1.4



M - 240 for comparison (three frame pano with ICE, converted to mono in OV2)

illumidata said:

SLN001 said:

Sony A6000

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With apologies for singling this out from a whole thread of nice images but there’s just something lovely about the way it looks - this sharp yet delicate rendering, and I don’t know if it’s the lens, the lighting, the processing or just something inherently aesthetic about the subject.

Anyway, thanks for posting and if I ever talk myself into buying another 35mm I know exactly where to start looking.

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You're right: this is beautiful image quality. The delicacy is what I think of as typical Leica lens quality -- although of course not all Leica lenses are the same.

Thank you.

Nice thread! And nice images!

For me, 35mm is usually an uncomfortable space between 28 and 50mm.

Without a model, usually I'm totally lost with 35mm....

My least worst 35mm, made with a 1952 Summaron 35mm f/3.5:

I had great intentions of getting out with may bagful of 35's today and comparing them in the landscape, but mother nature had other ideas and we had snow and rain most of the day. Not one to let a day go to waste, I set up a quick still life and did a comparison shoot. To be fair, it's not really an apples to apples comparison. Each lens was shot at closest focus, wide open and at f8. I've posted the f8 images below. The end result is a little misleading. The Canon f2 35mm SSC Concave FD lens doesn't look so good due to having by far the closest focus and thus a much narrow depth of field. The only other adjustments to the image were to set the white point for each image using the same spot and cropping. If I were to redo this, I would use the same tripod location.




The lenses




Mamiya SX 35mm f2.8 Shot at F8 Focus at 16"




Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar F3.5 Shot at F8 Focus at 18"



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Fuji EBC F2.8 Shot at F8 Focus at 18"



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Petri Kuribayashi C.C. F3.5 Shot at F8 Focus at 36"



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Schacht Ulm Travegon F3.5 Shot at F8 Focus at 36"




Kodak Schneider Kreuznach Retina-Curtagon F2.8 Shot at F8 Focus at 40"



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Canon FD 35mm F2 SSC Concave Shot at F8 Focus at 10"

So there you have it. I have a Yashica ML 35mm on its way, but won't be here for a couple weeks. I'm eager to test it out.