First shots with Elmar 90/4

danielnorton · 03-11-2006

Got a beautiful Elmar 90/4 as a trade with Memphis (thanks!) Last week. Below is an image from my first roll. Shot in my studio with flash on my Bessa r3a. I'm loving the 90mm focal length

Rich Silfver · 03-11-2006

Looks really great. What film did you use?
Wish the test shots from my Elmar 90/4 looked as good

danielnorton · 03-11-2006

Thanks Rich, this was Ilford fp4+ shot at 100 - developed at the lab - scanned on my epson 3200 flatbed.

Forgot to say, this was at about f 4.5 /125

Rich Silfver · 03-11-2006

Thanks. I have the same scanner myself so can't use that as an excuse

Mike Kovacs · 03-11-2006

I have a 90/4 Elmar on the way (prewar vintage I believe). Looking forward to getting results in that league from it

Fedzilla_Bob · 03-11-2006

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Originally Posted by danielnorton

Got a beautiful Elmar 90/4 as a trade with Memphis(thanks!) Last week. Below is an image from my first roll. Shot in mystudio with flash on my Bessa r3a. I'm loving the 90mm focal length

The lady isn't hard on the eyes either, great shot. That lens and your eye are good together.

JimG · 03-11-2006

One great feature of this lens is how easy it is to work on. Mine had a moderate amount of fungus on one element and haze on the other. With some advise and encouragement from Walker Smith I got the all the glass clear and cleaned as new. Can't wait to try it out now.

OpenWater · 03-12-2006

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Originally Posted by JimG

One great feature of this lens is how easy it is to work on. Mine had a moderate amount of fungus on one element and haze on the other. With some advise and encouragement from Walker Smith I got the all the glass clear and cleaned as new. Can't wait to try it out now.

So how does one clean the inside of the front element(s?) of a 90mm Elmar? I also have a new-old Elmar. I could see haze in it after I shined a flashlight through it and thought I would try to clean the rear element. The locking ring was loose so I just unscrewed that, noted where everything was, and carefully cleaned the element. The haze came right off. It looks so much better I thought I might try the front - even though the lens looks clear. I just don't want to screw it up in doing so. I would be interested in how you did yours.

JimG · 03-13-2006

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Originally Posted by OpenWater

So how does one clean the inside of the front element(s?) of a 90mm Elmar? I also have a new-old Elmar. I could see haze in it after I shined a flashlight through it and thought I would try to clean the rear element. The locking ring was loose so I just unscrewed that, noted where everything was, and carefully cleaned the element. The haze came right off. It looks so much better I thought I might try the front - even though the lens looks clear. I just don't want to screw it up in doing so. I would be interested in how you did yours.

Open Water, This was the first time I took a lens apart so I should be the last person to give advise on how to do it. What happened was after I separated the front and back of the lens barrel (I used the back of a mouse pad to get a grip) I was lucky that the fungus was on the now exposed back side of the front half. The haze was on the rear part of the lens, so again I was lucky. I didn't take the lens any further apart then that because I didn't need to. There are lot's of people here who can describe the right way to do this better then I can.

Ronald M · 03-11-2006

They were made for years and now you know why.

MinorTones · 03-13-2006

I tried to open my 90/4 Elmar to lube the aperature ring because it was moving the focus when I tried to change aperature. Now i cant get the two little screws back in their holes. Sorry to hi-jack a thread.

-Mitch

JimG · 03-13-2006

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Originally Posted by MinorTones

I tried to open my 90/4 Elmar to lube the aperature ring because it was moving the focus when I tried to change aperature. Now i cant get the two little screws back in their holes. Sorry to hi-jack a thread.

-Mitch

Mitch, If you go to the Optics thread and open a new thread asking a question re. Elmars I'm sure you will get some really useful information there.

Igor.Burshteyn · 03-13-2006

Looks like credit goes to the photographer - hard to judge lens contribution to this great shot. If you have shots with another lens from the same session - please post them, would be interesting to compare different lenses on the same subject/lighting.

danielnorton · 03-13-2006

Igor, thanks for your kind words. As a reference, I also shot during this session with my jupiter 8 on the bessa and my mamiya 645 with the 80/2.8

Here's a shot with the Jupiter 8, though the lighting is different as well.