View Full Version : Leica M3 on steroids
SolaresLarrave
11-01-2009, 12:46
Kind gentlemen, allow me to brag here...
This is my M3, equipped now with a Canon 50mm f1.2, recently shipped all the way from NY.
How about more shots of M3 cameras on steroids like this one? :)
Here we go... Number One
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=74537&d=1257112039
Number Two
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=74538&d=1257112091
TNX!
kshapero
11-01-2009, 12:49
I can't see it. Are you going to post a photo of it? I have seen Barry Bonds on steroids but never a camera much less an M3.
SolaresLarrave
11-01-2009, 12:52
You were too quick to reply... The photos are here now. Let me know...
hans voralberg
11-01-2009, 13:11
Let me introduce you to its UK cousin ;)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2725/4065372043_b217bac4b0.jpg
Roger Hicks
11-01-2009, 13:15
For a Leica on serious steroids the 70mm Combat Graphic is unbeatable. For usability; well, I'll go for the Leica.
Cheers,
R.
I hope you gain in performance what it loses in looks.
The available Leica 50mm lenses are not exactly chopped liver.
Like dropping some Detroit iron into a Porsche?
Sorry, just one man's opinion, which I know you didn't ask for. ;)
Silva Lining
11-01-2009, 13:40
Here's another one... have to admit this combo doesn't see much action though (prefer the 'lux)
http://www.pbase.com/phillbrown/image/64073393.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/phillbrown/image/64073392.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/y8s3elp
This is THE m3 on steroids. :D
Dave Wilkinson
11-01-2009, 13:56
Now how about some pictures BY them! - not OF them! :)
SolaresLarrave
11-01-2009, 14:06
My M3 is loaded with film. I haven't taken it to a lab. When I do, I'll post something. Otherwise, what's wrong with a little bit of harmless fun?
Dave Wilkinson
11-01-2009, 14:30
My M3 is loaded with film. I haven't taken it to a lab. When I do, I'll post something. Otherwise, what's wrong with a little bit of harmless fun? nothing at all!.....bring on the jewellery guys!:D
(only teasing really, Francisco!)
Dave:o
http://tinyurl.com/y8s3elp
This is THE m3 on steroids. :D
Looks like one of my old ones. I had multiple M3's converted to the M4P/M6 drive and then, apart from using the Rapidwinder on it, you could put the old "clunky" M4-2/M4-P winder on it - as well as the current Leica Winder. Works fine.
One caveat, if you use the self-timer - it will fire a 5 frame burst - with dire consequences for the shutter after a while!
Talk about steroids, M3 BP and Nocti 1.2 (http://cgi.ebay.com/100-original-Leica-M3-Black-Paint-mint-Noctilux-f1-2_W0QQitemZ180424058402QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCamera_L enses?hash=item2a021ca622#ht_1151wt_1167)
Two hours left, still deciding whether to buy it or not...
Cheers,
Don't understand why the camera should fire a burst when on self timer.
thomasw_
11-01-2009, 17:34
Talk about steroids, M3 BP and Nocti 1.2 (http://cgi.ebay.com/100-original-Leica-M3-Black-Paint-mint-Noctilux-f1-2_W0QQitemZ180424058402QQcmdZViewItemQQptZCamera_L enses?hash=item2a021ca622#ht_1151wt_1167)
Two hours left, still deciding whether to buy it or not...
Cheers,
Holy tubesocks, that is a prize combination, Riccis!
antiquark
11-01-2009, 17:34
http://leicarumors.com/2009/09/01/leitz-f0-85-75cm-lens.aspx/
http://leicarumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/LeitzlensF1.0-85-7.5cm.jpg
http://leicarumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/leitz-lens.jpg
buzzardkid
11-02-2009, 01:47
http://portretteur.nl/images/stories/m3_mhex50_web.jpg
Al Kaplan
11-02-2009, 02:09
I was just thinking of the Combat Graphic when I saw Roger's post. Does anybody still make cassettes? I guess that the introduction of 220 film took the pressure off for supplying 70mm film for the wedding shooters.
http://www.tunachaser.com/modules/pnCPG/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/M3-7.jpg
SolaresLarrave
11-02-2009, 05:38
http://www.tunachaser.com/modules/pnCPG/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/M3-7.jpg
Man... you're such a show-off... But thanks, those two are on real 'roids! :)
http://leicarumors.com/2009/09/01/leitz-f0-85-75cm-lens.aspx/
http://leicarumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/LeitzlensF1.0-85-7.5cm.jpg
http://leicarumors.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/leitz-lens.jpg
Wow, it looks like that thing totally blocks the RF patch? How can you focus?
You can't! Scale focussing at 1:0,85? What was this lens intended for?
Al Kaplan
11-03-2009, 07:10
It was probably designed for some sort of instrumentation purposes where the focus would remain undisturbed. Bunches of years I was given several fast lenses sans focusing mounts by an engineer at a company that would mount them exactly where they wanted them, focus-wise. I got a 75/1.5 Zeiss Jena Biotar (I stll use it as a loupe), 125mm and 150mm f/2.3 Astro Pan Tachars, and a 50mm 0.95 Canon. I paid to get the 150 in a focusing mount for my Pentacon 6 but it was stolen. The 125 I swapped for something. That guy still has it. I found somebody to buy the Canon although the protruding rear element was scratched to hell.
Anyway, if you have the camera bolted down you don't reed to keep focusing it, and a piece of ground glass atthe film plane can be used for focusing.
That lens is uncoated and must date to the 1940's or earlier!
http://thepriceofsilver.blogspot.com
It was probably designed for some sort of instrumentation purposes where the focus would remain undisturbed. Bunches of years I was given several fast lenses sans focusing mounts by an engineer at a company that would mount them exactly where they wanted them, focus-wise. I got a 75/1.5 Zeiss Jena Biotar (I stll use it as a loupe), 125mm and 150mm f/2.3 Astro Pan Tachars, and a 50mm 0.95 Canon. I paid to get the 150 in a focusing mount for my Pentacon 6 but it was stolen. The 125 I swapped for something. That guy still has it. I found somebody to buy the Canon although the protruding rear element was scratched to hell.
Anyway, if you have the camera bolted down you don't reed to keep focusing it, and a piece of ground glass atthe film plane can be used for focusing.
That lens is uncoated and must date to the 1940's or earlier!
http://thepriceofsilver.blogspot.com
Perhaps it was a cinema lens, rather than intended for an RF camera?
Dave Wilkinson
11-04-2009, 03:10
Sorry to rock the boat (again! ) and be a 'killjoy' - but I can't help thinking how ugly and ungainly these elegant cameras look when attached to a monstrous, large diameter lens, that half covers the 'windows' and totally upsets the balance!, still.....one man's meat........:(
Dave.
Al Kaplan
11-04-2009, 03:23
"Ugly and ungainly" aren't always considerations of any importance when there's a job to be done. Next time you get detoured around some "road construction" check out the vehicles levelling the ground, hauling the materials, laying down the macadam, etc.
Dave Wilkinson
11-04-2009, 03:37
"Ugly and ungainly" aren't always considerations of any importance when there's a job to be done. Next time you get detoured around some "road construction" check out the vehicles levelling the ground, hauling the materials, laying down the macadam, etc. Yes....that's true! (and obvious! ) but I would bet that most of the people that have them here - don't need to do any 'job' with them! apart from internet bragging or posing! :rolleyes: . Strange how everyone is allowed to express their opinion here - as long as it goes along with the general flow of 'adulation'....but heaven help those who disagree!:)
Dave.
Yes....that's true! (and obvious! ) but I would bet that most of the people that have them here - don't need to do any 'job' with them! apart from internet bragging or posing! :rolleyes: . Strange how everyone is allowed to express their opinion here - as long as it goes along with the general flow of 'adulation'....but heaven help those who disagree!:)
Dave.
Well, if you like small lenses - nobody stops you from using them. However if you need a "do-it-all" lens, or like a specific signature, such as Noctilux or Nokton 35/1.2 have, there is nothing else out there that will work instead. I, personally, like fast lenses for low light photography and for shallow DOF/Bokeh. I dont see how that is "internet bragging".
Brian Sweeney
11-04-2009, 04:26
http://ziforums.com/picture.php?albumid=118&pictureid=1529
The Canon 50/1.2 is not so big. I prefer a Zeiss Sonnar on the CL, but the 50/1.2 does not block the finder, framelines, or RF patch.
Yes....that's true! (and obvious! ) but I would bet that most of the people that have them here - don't need to do any 'job' with them! apart from internet bragging or posing! :rolleyes: . Strange how everyone is allowed to express their opinion here - as long as it goes along with the general flow of 'adulation'....but heaven help those who disagree!:)
Dave.
Jealousy is not becoming. :)
SolaresLarrave
11-05-2009, 09:02
Funny how the CL minimizes the size of the Canon lens, while the M3 makes it look bigger than it really is... Maybe there was some type of prevision on the CL designer's part and that's why all the windows are perfectly clear.
Oh, well... nice bulldozer, Brian! :)
Wow, it looks like that thing totally blocks the RF patch? How can you focus?
That was my immediate thought too. If you can't focus, what's the point ( the noob asked innocently)?
Dave Wilkinson
11-05-2009, 09:18
Jealousy is not becoming. :) no jealousy here! - I acquired one ( on a Canon 7 )....could not get rid quick enough! :)....funnily enough - neither could the guy who bought it!:D....and - no it didn't need any work!
Dave.
no jealousy here! - I acquired one ( on a Canon 7 )....could not get rid quick enough! :)....funnily enough - neither could the guy who bought it!:D....and - no it didn't need any work!
Dave.
They can be hard to master - or maybe just too ungainly and ugly for you... :D
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