75mm summilux shots

[menos]

The 75 is not an easy diva to deal with, but who doesn't love her, when all pieces fit ?

From the Shanghai F1 GP (most shots pin track, I did with D3 and 300 VR + TCs, but I loved the Leicas around the track):

[Beano_z]

Originally Posted by menos

The 75 is not an easy diva to deal with, but who doesn't love her, when all pieces fit ?

From the Shanghai F1 GP (most shots pin track, I did with D3 and 300 VR + TCs, but I loved the Leicas around the track):

You really do magic with that lens...

[rsolti]

Nice Dirk!

[menos]

Thanks BB and rsolti - I like that portrait, knowing, how difficult it is, to really nail it with the 75 Lux.

Here are a few shots from a day in my hometown in Germany: Leipzig, a city, one can only love!

[slantface]

nice shots Dirk. Didn't know you were shooting a 75 Lux these days. It's gotta be one of the best lenses I own, even though I don't shoot it as much as I should.

[menos]

Thanks Jordan!
I have the 75 Summilux for some time now, but only got around using it more a week ago.
I try, to have it in the bag, whenever possible now - difficult to nail focus wide open, but a magical lens all around!

[Araakii]

Originally Posted by menos

Thanks BB and rsolti - I like that portrait, knowing, how difficult it is, to really nail it with the 75 Lux.

Here are a few shots from a day in my hometown in Germany: Leipzig, a city, one can only love!

Fantastic series!

[Araakii]

Blade and Soul #5 by Araakii, on Flickr

[menos]

Originally Posted by Araakii

Fantastic series!

Thank you! I really enjoyed the few hours, I had, shooting candid portraits in my hometown.
I plan, to do this now more seriously, everywhere, I go - have to get a hold of the Summilux 75 though - a really tough lens, to use wide open and close up.

[philipus]

There are some amazing photos in this thread. Your portraits are really nice Dirk, well done.

Perhaps it is not entirely ok to mention it in this forum, I don't know (but I checked the classifieds here first) but a 75 type 2 recently popped up over at the other big Leica forum. It's in the US.

[menos]

Originally Posted by philipus

There are some amazing photos in this thread. Your portraits are really nice Dirk, well done.

Perhaps it is not entirely ok to mention it in this forum, I don't know (but I checked the classifieds here first) but a 75 type 2 recently popped up over at the other big Leica forum. It's in the US.

Thanks

And I find this entirely appropriate, to hint for a deal on one of these puppies. In my opinion, everybody should have one + it's hard to come by a good deal these days :-(

[dannyChou]

[dannyChou]

[jcrutcher]

[Lord Fluff]

Originally Posted by menos

it's hard to come by a good deal these days :-(

However on the upside, the 75 Lux has still yet to go the way of the Noctilux - prices on the 75 are creeping up in the UK, whereas the Nocti has doubled in the past couple of years - now around £4500 in the UK for a decent copy - you can bag a good Lux for half that.

If you are in the market for one and find one you can afford I say go for it - when I bought mine I wasn’t sure it was a keeper, but as the dealer said 'you won't lose money on it'. So far he's right - though currently it's not going anywhere!

[TheGodParticle]

There are lenses and there are masterpieces

Using the lux 75 on the full frame M9 is like going into a trance to me

some results -> (i "see better" with my left eye hence the DSLR style shot)

[TheGodParticle]

[TheGodParticle]

Now, an outdoor set ->

[Mackinaw]

Wide open at F1.4. Neopan 1600 at E.I. of 800. In Xtol.



Jim B.

[mfogiel]

20121908 by mfogiel, on Flickr

[philipus]

I know there are three versions of this lens, or 2,5 depending on how one counts.

E. Puts reports that the 1st (clip-on hood) version weighs 490g, that the 2nd (pull-out hood) version weighs a whole lot more, 600g, and that the 3d (Anniversary edition) version weighs 560g. They're all optically identical as I understand it.

If one wants as light a kit as possible, is there anything that speaks against the first version, apart from the clip-on hood (if that's a drawback)?

[MikeL]

Originally Posted by philipus

If one wants as light a kit as possible, is there anything that speaks against the first version, apart from the clip-on hood (if that's a drawback)?

philipus, I think the first one close-focuses to 0.9 or 1 meter, while the later ones are 0.7. Otherwise no difference.

[jcrutcher]

[philipus]

Originally Posted by MikeL

philipus, I think the first one close-focuses to 0.9 or 1 meter, while the later ones are 0.7. Otherwise no difference.

Thanks Mike. Ok that's very useful to know. Can be quite a limitation. I have a pre-asph 50 summilux with 1m closest focusing distance and much prefer the 0,7m of the asph. Granted perhaps one would use the 75 in different settings at longer distances. Still i think i would use it indoors for close-up portraits so the first version might not be what I want, even though it is much lighter.

Hmmm tricky.

[dannyChou]