35 for 8

Three candidates that were ultimately unsuccessful.

A new, old camera system without a wide angle? No, you can’t.

Scandalous Swip-Swap

There and back again

This is my M6 “Going public” set that I had in commission at the Leica Store Frankfurt to be sold. To their surprise and my disappointment, it found no buyers for two months. So, to remedy the situation and for other Leica lens related reasons, I made a motorcycle round trip out of it. This is what happened in the last two days:

90 Degrees of Sharpness

Wide angle revelation

Well, about that lens I got three days ago, Leica’s Super Elmar-M 1:3.4/21 ASPH.

Sitting proud

The Riddle of the Spiegelsucher

It’s convoluted

This weekend, I’m on the first two-day motorcycle tour of the season. I’ve been invited by some nuns to a church service, a round trip and finally a biker blessing. This will all be performed today, May first 2022, in and around Trier at the Mosel river, by the Schönstatt sisterhood and the Trier bishop, I guess. I’ve been blessed in 2019 before, so I need a fill-up.

Beautifully Wrong

It does look Barnack-ish!

First impressions on a new, old lens.

Leica Summaron-M f/5.6 28 mm

It comes with a historically correct, humongous hood that I will keep in the presentation box in expectation of appreciation. The lens is deeply recessed into it’s pancake housing, anyway.
Leica did something left-of-center with this lens. It is a reissue of a fifties screw mount lens, this time with coated lenses, M bayonet, 6-bit-coding and slight updates in the engravings. The optical formula they left alone! So it renders like it’s 1955!

Heavy vignetting at f/5.6