Newbie loose with IIIa + Summar -- run for cover. [Archive]

Sanders McNew

06-07-2007, 22:21

So, in a fit of indulgence,
I picked up a sweet IIIa
with a clean coated Summar
at Adorama yesterday.

I gave it some exercise today.
Here's a scan from the first roll:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/225/535616331_723b2af52c_o.jpg

This is with the Summar wide-open,
1/100 sec at f/2, on Foma 200, EI 100.

I promise to do better
once I tame this beast.

Sanders

Honus

06-07-2007, 22:34

Very nice. Looks like you got a good, clean Summar. Keep posting more.

dnemoc

06-07-2007, 22:34

Pretty good :) I like the Summar signature very much. Just curious: how did you process this film? ---seems like the highlight region has a pretty stiff gamma, could be the scanner...

Sanders McNew

06-07-2007, 22:39

Pretty good :) I like the Summar signature very much. Just curious: how did you process this film? ---seems like the highlight region has a pretty stiff gamma, could be the scanner...

It could well be my scanner curve you're seeing.

This is my first time shooting Foma 200. I exposed it at EI 100,
and processed it in a 1:50 Rodinal solution for 8 minutes @ 68F.

Sanders

fdigital

06-07-2007, 22:45

Beautiful photo! That summar look sure is pretty

payasam

06-07-2007, 23:49

You're doing well. Keep at it. The Summar must have been sent back to the factory to be coated.

dnemoc

06-08-2007, 00:58

It could well be my scanner curve you're seeing.

This is my first time shooting Foma 200. I exposed it at EI 100,
and processed it in a 1:50 Rodinal solution for 8 minutes @ 68F.

Sanders

I'm quite certain it's the scanner curve :)

Ronald M

06-08-2007, 04:51

You better send that setup to me. You stand a good chance of getting addicted to that sort of thing.

charjohncarter

06-08-2007, 07:32

Here are two of my Summar images. I miss posted the details, but they were Summar. Forty five years ago nobody talked about the special quality of a Summar. Now when you see it you say, at the least, 'Wow', that is a different look'. Here they are: http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=64107&ppuser=8685

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=64025&ppuser=8685

Sanders McNew

06-08-2007, 08:58

charjohncarter

06-08-2007, 17:29

Thanks, Sanders McNew, but it was one of those 'lucky' shots. I took it in 1963, and I wish there were more (lucky shots) in-between then and now.

cjm

06-09-2007, 13:09

Sanders, thats a great shot. Looks like your Summar is a good sample.

Coincidentally, I too just got a Leica IIIa and Summar. Here are three from my first roll, Kodak BW400CN:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1342/534105674_3d2724cc32.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1106/534118644_145b5b6c6c.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1368/534105656_caa2a7c539.jpg

Meterless photography is so liberating!

Sanders McNew

06-15-2007, 00:19

I am still shooting this Summar wide-open
onto Foma. I've not bothered with a hood so far.
I shot another photographer this evening,
Chip Willis. Here's one, fresh from the fixer:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/218/550919298_8e6ff87309_o.jpg

raid

06-21-2007, 10:29

I bought today a replacement Summar lens for the one that got stolen from me. Such threads create GAS!

Sanders McNew

06-22-2007, 23:09

I shot a British photographer, Ian Leake, during his shoot with a model here in New York. The lighting was impossible but the coated Summar, with no hood, handled it well.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1320/596275987_aa560042bb_o.jpg

payasam

06-23-2007, 00:02

Good going for a lens which was never too well regarded.

Sanders McNew

06-29-2007, 07:03

Two more. I'll stop after this, I promise.

Still shot with the Summar, maybe f/3.5, onto Foma 200.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1146/660820222_faa27ad2c9_o.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/660820190_72f1a1359a_o.jpg

georges h

06-29-2007, 12:01

Very nice, these old Summars . A rather particular signature. Thanks.

HuubL

07-06-2007, 00:00

Man, you've got THE EYE!

vrgard

11-19-2007, 17:46

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/660820190_72f1a1359a_o.jpg

Very nice shots, Sanders, in this thread. I particularly like the shot above in that it really emphasizes how beautiful an older person can look if they would just relax and enjoy having their picture taken. Of course they have wrinkles and grey hair, they're old! But that doesn't mean they or their picture aren't still beautiful. I guess I may just be reacting a bit to my grandmother who complains about having her picture taken yet always frowns when a camera is pointed her way - no wonder she looks bad in pictures!

-Randy

Sanders McNew

11-19-2007, 20:11

Randy, thanks for the compliment.

Senility steadied a difficult subject. :-)

Sanders

doublejet

12-04-2007, 22:26

nice shoot!
i have got my summar on the way!
so exciting

kittyphoto

12-29-2008, 02:53

Excellent shots! for the old ladies. The sequence shot create stories. Two thumbs up.

I would love to see some color pictures from this lens.

kitty

Hacker

12-29-2008, 03:02

Wide open but on an M8:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/3068064154_a976834961_o.jpg

dave lackey

12-29-2008, 07:03

Pretty good :) I like the Summar signature very much. Just curious: how did you process this film? ---seems like the highlight region has a pretty stiff gamma, could be the scanner...

Hmmm...could you explain the "gamma comment" for me? Sorry, but as a newbie of sorts, I would love to know the meaning.:confused:

thanks in advance

dave lackey

12-29-2008, 11:57

That Summar lens looks to have some real character...

Time to put it on my research list! Great images!:)