Considering First Leica: IIIc or g - Thoughts?

Lamar · May 28, 2015

Speaking of flare. My favorite. Jupiter-12 on a Zorki 4.

cuthbert · May 29, 2015

Lamar said:
Speaking of flare. My favorite. Jupiter-12 on a Zorki 4.

That's a beautiful shot, I remember I've seen something similar in Gravity (obviously digitally reproduced) when in a sequence the camera pans and frames the sun.

Lamar · May 29, 2015

Thanks. It was just luck that it came out like it did. If I remember, it was one of my first shots with the Jupiter 12 and I wanted to see how bad it flared. I pointed it toward the sun and shot. I had no idea what it would look like. I guess in reality this is an unwanted lens trait but I like the effect.

cuthbert said:
That's a beautiful shot, I remember I've seen something similar in Gravity (obviously digitally reproduced) when in a sequence the camera pans and frames the sun.

philipus · May 30, 2015

cuthbert said:
For the camera load please refer to this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaBhFj0Rc2I

This is the only correct procedure I'd recommend, no credit cards or other sillities.

It says the video is unavailable. But allow me to be contrarian. This is how I load.

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Lamar · May 30, 2015

Well the RF on this Leica seems spot on. The scales on my J-8 and J-12 must be off, indicating a little farther distance out than where actually focused. The J-11 indicated the correct distance. All were in focus when the RF was focused. Here are some snaps from my first roll. Only about half way through scanning them now but all looks good.

J-8 at f/2

J-8 at f/11

J-11 at f/5.6

J-12 at f/5.6

cuthbert · May 31, 2015

philipus said:
It says the video is unavailable. But allow me to be contrarian. This is how I load.

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Perhaps you prefer these links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTiJcpy9LsU

http://jay.fedka.com/index_files/Page345.htm

That's the way Mr.Barnack designed his cameras.

There is only one correct way to load film into a FED, Zorki (1,S,2,2s,and 5) LTM Leica, some Canon RF, Zenit-1,S, 3, and other bottom loading cameras: as it had been instructed! Barnack and his colleagues at Leitz have long ago determined it to be so. Any other method would prove to be clumsy, tricky, fail-prone, slow, and awkward. These could also lead to damage to both camera and damage; using a loading method such as the one show in the picture would also open the camera literally to contaminants.

Lamar said:
Well the RF on this Leica seems spot on. The scales on my J-8 and J-12 must be off, indicating a little farther distance out than where actually focused. The J-11 indicated the correct distance. All were in focus when the RF was focused. Here are some snaps from my first roll. Only about half way through scanning them now but all looks good.

J-8 at f/2

J-8 at f/11

J-11 at f/5.6

J-12 at f/5.6

Pics are fine, everything in focus, everybody's happy!

Lamar · May 31, 2015

On film loading: I will use the method from the Leica manual and Fedka. It seems easy enough to trim several rolls with scissors ahead of time and it provides the simplest method of loading in the field.

Lamar · Jun 1, 2015

The Summitar is in and looks nice. I have an extra Jupiter 12 end cap that fits nicely on the Summitar with it fully collapsed but I don't have a front cap that works. B&H has the Kaiser 41mm Push-On Lens Cap for under $12.00 US. Will it work on a Leica Summitar 50mm f/2.0 collapsible lens? Also, I guess i need an adapter for using filters. Any suggestions? From what I read on line it's a 36.5 to 39 mm adapter. However, from the pics I've seen it seems like once you put it and a filter on you'd stand a good change of a little vignetting.

nathanbucs · Jun 2, 2015

You can use a step up ring which can be bought from ebay. Filters for summitar are very hard to find. heavystar on ebay has them

Hatchetman · Jun 2, 2015

You can find Summitar filters with a little patience. I found yellow and green ones for less than $20 each.

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