Earlier this week I took the Sony NEX out in the back yard
for a couple quick snap shots with the Leica 50mm f1.5 Summarit and the Hawk's
Factory helicoid adapter. Interestingly,
I have two of these lenses, the first in LTM that came with my Leica IIIf, made
around 1950 and a later M mount one made in 1957.
Both are essentially identical other than the
mounts, though the M mount is a slightly cleaner example.
For something different, I decided to try my LTM version out
with the helicoid adapter, primarily as I wanted to get a little closer to some
flowers, and also just to see how it rendered photos at maximum aperture with
when the helicoid was set to close focus.
Turns out beautifully, as long as objects behind are some
distance away. If not, the rendering
becomes quite swirly, almost as if the camera was twisted around the in focus
object. Some like this effect, but I
don't particularly care for it. Like most lenses of this era, it shows a little fringing but
it does have that 'glow' about the pictures that modern lenses with multi
coating don't have.
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